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From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD, 16 to 32MB unrecognized on EISA machine
Date: 4 Sep 1994 19:44:45 GMT
Organization: Andrews University
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In article <CvLMqD.7Is@luva.stgt.sub.org> migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org (Michael Giegerich) writes:
>
>Me too. With a Dell 425TE - It's their Phoenix BIOS, it stores
>only 15 MB of extended memory.
>One Dell employee told me they are doing this for compatibility
>reasons...
>

Hmm, I don't understand this.  The boot program shows the
correct amount of extended memory, the kernel just doesn't get the
right value.  So the boot code is getting it from somewhere!
(where the bios is hiding it I guess)
I guess I'll have to go peeking into memory locations.. :-)

-Andrew
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