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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: v2.1.5 Doesn't Recognize 64+ Megs RAM
Date: 13 Dec 1996 02:12:12 -0000
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In article <01bbe823$c6460e80$bf60d4cf@sidewinder>,
	"Damien Thorn" <damien@digicity.net> writes:
: 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?

Have a look in /sys/i386/conf/LINT, something like:

options		"MAXMEM=(128*1024)"

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
.