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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 13:10:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Craig Shrimpton <craigs@os.com>
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Subject: Re: FBSD will not see mem above 16MB but PC does.
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On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Craig Shrimpton wrote:

> I have FBSD 2.1-STABLE on a Compaq Presario (has funky bios) and I've 
> just added another 32MB RAM.  On boot the PC saw the new memory and 
> autoconfiged it.  However, FBSD will only see 16MB of it.  

How wierd.  Does the BIOS see it too?  

> I had a similar problem with another machine but I wanted to go over 
> 64MB.  That required the MAXMEM parameter in the config file.  Is that 
> necessary in this case or is there some conflict with the Presarios and 
> FBSD?

Well, this _is_ a Compaq we're talking about, not the paramount of PC
compatibility.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major