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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: I have 64MB but only see 12MB
Date: 31 Aug 1996 16:07:34 GMT
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Robert Withrow <bwithrow@baynetworks.com> wrote:

> This seems different from the FAQ.  I have a P6_200
> with 64MB of memory (which the bios sees) but FreeBSD
> only sees 12MB.  This is 2.1.5.  Dmesg excerpts follow:

> Features=0xf9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,<b11>,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV>
> real memory  = 12582912 (12288K bytes)
> avail memory = 10743808 (10492K bytes)

Seems your BIOS writes the wrong value into the CMOS.  Anyway, the fix
is identical to the one described for > 64 MB machines.

-- 
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. ;-)