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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Max. Addressable Physical Memory
Date: 6 Oct 1996 22:47:16 GMT
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In article <538m2p$g8h@mercury.mcs.com>,
	tundra@MCS.COM (Tim Daneliuk) writes:
> My FreeBSD 2.1.5 systems runs on a Gateway 90Mhz Pentium motherboard.
> I recently upgraded from 16MB to 80MB (2-32M and 2-8M SIMMS).  The
> POST sees all 80MB, but FreeBSD sees only the first 64MB.  Is there
> some inherent FreeBSD limitation here or is this a problem 'cause I
> mixed SIMM sizes?

Nope, there's an inherent CMOS limitation where it can only report up to
64Mb.

Put options MAXMEM=81920 in your kernel config file and rebuild.

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....