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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Compaq's, FreeBSD 2.0.5, and Memory
Date: 19 Jul 1995 04:19:02 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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Message-ID: <3ui13m$fon@park.uvsc.edu>
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greg@mn.interact.net (Greg Rowe) wrote:
]
] I've tried before to get past the problems with using over 16 megs of Memory on a
] Compaq EISA bus machine. I followed Terry Lambert's (and a few others) suggestions on
] changing the meminit routine, and although the kernel now says I have 24 meg of memory,
] it then marks the memory over 16 meg as bad.
]
] My question is, has anyone managed to get a Compaq EISA bus system to run FreeBSD with
] over 16 megs of memory, and if so what model Compaq was it ? Thanks.
You may have to go to the current code to get this; add:
options "MAXMEM=6144"
to your config file and build yourself a kernel.
This should be all that's necessary (it's obviously bee a while
since you first posted).
The size is in 4k pages.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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or previous employers.