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From: rashid@rk.ios.com (Rashid Karimov)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 128MB Ram
Date: 2 Jan 1996 20:03:52 GMT
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: 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.
The old 2.05 didn't allow to specify the MAXMEM define
in the kernel config file - so the hack was actually
neede back then.
Now just define
define "MAXMEM=131092"
in the config file and recompile the thing ...
you'll probably have to define LARGEMEM as
well ... dunno if it's required ...
Rashid
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