Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 10:08:45 -0600 From: Jay Bratcher <jayb@netjava.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Subject: Re: FreeBSD can't find 32M of my 48M without help Message-ID: <3516890D.1C25FB46@netjava.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980323093940.14473A-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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Chris Dillon wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Drew Derbyshire - UUPC/extended software support wrote: > > > 2) By default, the kernel only reports I have 16M, when in fact I have 48M. > > Windows 95 does see the entire 48M, and FreeBSD will see all 48M if I > > explicitly tell it in the configuration file via MAXMEM. > > > > I didn't think the MAXMEM was required for under 64M. > > > > Machine is a Compaq P/166. > > Of the few Compaq machines that I have installed FreeBSD on, RAM over 16MB > was never recognized and had to be explicitly set with MAXMEM in the > kernel. Incidentally, this is not unique to FreeBSD - Linux suffers from the same problem, at least on the DeskPro 2000 series... Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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