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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu
Subject: Re: LINT addition please
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># MAXMEM Specified the maximum amount of ram in the system in kilobytes.  Only
>#        use this if your BIOS is broken (I.e. Compaq's).  You can specify as

Compaq's BIOS support isn't broken.  FreeBSD's BIOS support is broken and
fails on recalcitrant machines with < 64M and on all machines with >= 64M.

Bruce