From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 22 21:12:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA26194 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 21:12:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop01.ny.us.ibm.net (pop01.ny.us.ibm.net [165.87.194.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA26187 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 21:12:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by pop01.ny.us.ibm.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id EAA43764; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:11:37 GMT Message-Id: <199608230411.EAA43764@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "FreeBSD questions" Date: Fri, 23 Aug 96 00:10:41 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Francisco Reyes's Registered PMMail 1.52 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: How do i find out how much memory FreeBSD can see? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At work I have a compaq with 20MB of ram. At boot time FreeBSD displays a line with that seems to be the amount of memory freeBSD can see. It only lists 16MB. I think I recall reading somewhere that Compaqs had this problem and that I had to make a new kernell with an option indicating the amount of memory. I followed the instructions on the handbook and FAQ on how to tell freebsd on the kernell the amount of maximun memory. After the computer booted again it was still showing 16. Moreover, after I booted with the new kernell I lost all users and certain system configurations (such as the name of the prompt been the name of the machine).