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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 128MB Ram Date: 30 Dec 1995 00:08:20 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4c1vtk$b4r@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4bv73t$faa@sundog.tiac.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 pete@millenium.tiac.net (Pete Davis) writes: > > Does anybody know if there is a real way to make a machine recognize 128MB > of ram? It appears that my kernel only recognizes 64MB. Is there anyway > to do this without hacking? If I need to hack it, what is the best > way to go about doing so? The CMOS doesn't allow for more than 64 MB. Look into /sys/i386/i386/machdep.c, search for ``MAXMEM''. I think that's the constant you gotta tweak with. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)