From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 27 09:50:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA01890 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 09:50:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA01870 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 09:50:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id HAA04366 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 07:27:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from agisgate.agis.net by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA15866 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Thu, 27 Mar 1997 07:24:40 -0800 Received: from radio (ops1.agis.net [205.137.48.54]) by agisgate.agis.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA00869; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 10:24:46 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970327102543.00a9ddc0@agisgate.agis.net> X-Sender: markl@agisgate.agis.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 10:25:44 -0500 To: dg@root.com From: Mark E Larson Subject: Re: Extended memory in 2.2.1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Howdy! This is my line in the kernel: options "MAXMEM=393216" After compile, on boot up I recieve this message: real memory = 402653184 (393216K bytes) kmem_suballoc: bad status return of 3 panic: kmem_suballoc Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press any key to reboot At 05:33 PM 3/26/97 -0800, David Greenman wrote: >>Howdy! >> >>Ok. I tried adding this line in the 2.2.1 kernel >> >>options "maxmem=1024*384" >> >>To reconize 384M of RAM. This worked under 2.1.5, but in 2.2.1 upon boot >>up the kernel says "memory bounce rebooting in 15 secs" > > Please provide the EXACT kernel message. I can't help you without that. >I see that people have already pointed out that the above should be: > >options "MAXMEM=393216" > > ...as the arithmetic may not work as intended. Be sure the kernel reports >the proper amount of memory in the startup message. Also, it is not necessary >to send messages like this to multiple mailing lists. hackers or questions >would have been sufficient. > >-DG > >David Greenman >Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project > > ################################################################### A P E X G L O B A L I N F O R M A T I O N S E R V I C E S ################################################################### Network Operations Center 313-730-5151 noc@agis.net News Administration 313-730-5151 news@agis.net Business Office/Sales 313-730-1130 sales@agis.net Visit our Web Page: http://www.agis.net Network News Information: http://agisgate.agis.net/netnews/netnews.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Don't throw a HSSI...and drop that ethernet!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------