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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!mn6.swip.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: v2.1.5 Doesn't Recognize 64+ Megs RAM Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 20:24:20 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 21 Message-ID: <32B069F4.2CD3@www.play-hookey.com> References: <01bbe823$c6460e80$bf60d4cf@sidewinder> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32481 Damien Thorn wrote: > > Added more RAM to our news server (you know how those beasts get), but the > OS isn't recognizing the additional memory when it loads and does it's > probes. > > We went had 64 Meg, and added 32 Meg additional. Motherboard BIOS > recognizes all 98 Meg on boot... > > What should I check / do? > > Thanks in advance for the tips! You'll need to reset the variable MAXMEM and then recompile your kernel. Check LINT in the sources. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |