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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: memory > 16MB ???
Date: 10 Dec 1996 05:20:02 -0000
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In article <32ABD631.791D@adelaide.on.net>,
Bogdan Roszkowski <bogdanr@adelaide.on.net> writes:
: 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!!!
awfulhak $ fgrep MAXMEM /sys/i386/conf/LINT
# MAXMEM specifies the amount of RAM on the machine; if this is not
options "MAXMEM=(128*1024)"
Your CMOS mustn't be reporting it correctly :(
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
.