Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 13:49:20 -0500 (EST) From: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com> To: Chris Angell <chris62vw@hotmail.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: RAM Memory Question Message-ID: <20020220134806.Q31884-100000@mail.radzinschi.com> In-Reply-To: <F11g93VLnjJeDYt4lBM0000f5a2@hotmail.com>
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Make sure that you have NOT enabled the memory hole in your BIOS. This is something that OS/2 needed. I cannot say for certain if this is what is causing your problem, but check it out. Marco Radzinschi E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com AOL IM: CrackedBoy Running FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 1:48PM up 10 days, 16:03, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Chris Angell wrote: > Helpers, > > I have a FreeBSD machine running 4.5 Release. This machine has 256 megs of > ram. On startup, FreeBSD (or the boot loader?) recognizes the ram. It sees > all 256 megs. The message reads something like "BIOS Reports 256789Kb". > > When the kernel takes over booting, it complains something like "Memory Hole > in physical memory, giving up". The error is NOT in DMESG, though DMESG > does say that this machine has only 150 megs of real and 142 megs of > available memory. > > Does anyone have any ideas? This machine is a new 1 Ghz Athlon with two > sticks of PC-133 SDRAM. This problem is rather puzzling. Usually, in my > experiences, ram either does its thing like it's supposed to, or simply > renders the machine inoperable. > > Thanks, > > Chris Angell. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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