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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.maui.com!news-in.iadfw.net!news.sesqui.net!news.coral-energy.com!newsrelay.courtave.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!feed1.news.erols.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!news.lth.se!roma.axis.se!usenet From: jh@axis.se (Joergen Haegg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD && big memory (>64Mbyte) Date: 22 Nov 1996 09:20:47 GMT Organization: Axis Communications AB Lines: 17 Message-ID: <573r9g$mlv@roma.axis.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: nevyn.axis.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE Does anyone know why one must recompile the kernel to install more than 64 Mbyte of memory? I found some note that FreeBSD trusts the CMOS to be right, and for some reasons it isn't right beyond 16 or 64 Mbyte Couldn't FreeBSD find out the size for itself? It seems as if win95, OS/2 and other systems are doing their own size calculation, not depending on the CMOS parameter. Can anyone explain this to me? :-) /Jörgen Hägg