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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.csuohio.edu!stever From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) Subject: Re: > 16 megs of ram Message-ID: <1994Aug14.210830.23806@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <32lukdINNrma@soccer.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: Sun, 14 Aug 1994 21:08:30 GMT Lines: 15 joel braden wood (wood@cis.ohio-state.edu) wrote: : I thought FreeBSD 1.1.5 was supposed to be able to handle greater than : 16 megs of ram for any machine type, but when I boot only 16 out of my 24 : megs are recognized. Is there something special that I need to do to get : the other 8 working? I beleive the GENERIC* distribution kernels are hard coded in the config file they where compiled from to only use 16mb. This is with options MAXMEM=SIZE Simply recompile your own kernel without this option enabled and your memory should be recognized. Steve