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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!xmission!nntp.micrognosis.com!inquo!usenet From: Pete Kruckenberg <pete@inquo.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Just 16MB recognized Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 01:20:13 -0600 Organization: inQuo http://www.inquo.net Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: <31749BAD.756D@inquo.net> References: <31738B63.41C67EA6@ubs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: alexa.inquo.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; I) To: Patrick Haener <patrick.haener@ubs.com> Patrick Haener wrote: > My Compaq Deskpro 590 is loaded with 48MB, but just 16MB > are recognized: dmesg tells the following Apparently, detecting more than 16MB in a PC requires some additional code that makes the FreeBSD boot image larger than can fit on one floppy. What you need to do is recompile the kernel (see http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/freebsd-faq85.html#85 for detailed information on how to do that), and use the entry 'options "MAXMEM=<n>"' in your kernel configuration file (http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/freebsd-faq91.html#91 has more information). Hope this helps. I have 96MB and after setting MAXMEM=98304, all 96MB were recognized. Pete Kruckenberg pete@inquo.net