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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.ade.connect.com.au!news.adelaide.on.net!usenet From: Bogdan Roszkowski <bogdanr@adelaide.on.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: memory > 16MB ??? Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 18:34:49 +0930 Organization: Internode Professional Access (ISP) Lines: 24 Message-ID: <32ABD631.791D@adelaide.on.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp56.adelaide.on.net.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) CC: questions@freebsd.org hi all... i have been using linux for a while now and have decided to try freebsd 2.1.0... can anyone help me with getting freebsd to use memory above 16mb??? i have a Dell omniplex 590 with 64mb ram... when the kernel boots i can see the following: bios base 635k != rtc base 640k bios mem 64848k != rtc mem 16384k ...then a few lines later it says: real mem = 16384k aval mem = 13xxxk when the system comes up, it can only see 16mb of my memory!!! i've looked through all the docs, but can't find anything else to set (i've tried using bounce buffers) thanks in advance. :) michal.