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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 128M machine only sees 64M
Date: 23 Jul 1995 12:56:31 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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mdodd@tiger.lsu.edu (Matthew N. Dodd) wrote:
>
> SuperMicro m/b w/P90 & 128M RAM.
> FreeBSD 2.0.5.snap only sees the first 64M of RAM.
> 
> I know this was discussed but I thought "I'll never have 128M of RAM" and I 
> didn't read it closely.  Anybody have a solution to this?

CMOS limitation.

Rebuild your kernel with the following line in your config file:

options "MAXMAM=32768"		# 128*1024*1024/4096


                                        Terry Lambert
                                        terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
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