Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 01:10:54 +0200 (SAST) From: The Psychotic Viper <psyv@sec-it.net> To: Martin Potgieter <martin@tradepage.co.za> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: memory holes Message-ID: <20011018010732.D5458-100000@lucifer.fuzion.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <FLENLOMEDDCDAOGILIIIOENHCLAA.martin@tradepage.co.za>
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Hi, On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Martin Potgieter wrote: > I installed FreeBSD 4.4 Release on a old pentium 75 with 32 Megs of RAM. At > first it would not boot, even from the cd. Then I enabled "memory hole at > 16M" option in the bios and all worked fine. Problem is that the > installation only sees 16 megs of RAM. Must I disable the memory hole in > the BIOS and rebuild the kernel with MAXMEM option or is there a parameter I > can pass at boot time to tell FreeBSD to use all the memory.. Where would I > put this boot time parameter /boot/loader.conf ?? I am not using any ISA > devices. Best would be to enable MAXMEM in your kernel, and no idea wether you can set that in your loader.rc. Disabling the BIOS option wont work as chances are the system wont boot like you said, again no idea if it would cause any issues though. 0.2c [after conversion :(] PsyV To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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