Date: Mon, 09 Dec 96 13:40:52 From: "Francisco Reyes" <reyes01@ibm.net> To: "Bogdan.Roszkowski@adelaide.on.net" <Bogdan.Roszkowski@adelaide.on.net>, "questions@freefall.freebsd.org" <questions@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: re:memory > 16MB ??? Message-ID: <199612091833.SAA61684@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net>
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On Mon, 9 Dec 1996 07:20:22 -0800 (PST), owner-questions-digest@freefall.freebsd.org wrote: >From: Bogdan Roszkowski <Bogdan.Roszkowski@adelaide.on.net> >Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 18:34:49 +0930 >Subject: memory > 16MB ??? >can anyone help me with getting freebsd to use memory above 16mb??? >i have a Dell omniplex 590 with 64mb ram... >when the kernel boots i can see the following: >michal. I don't know the exact details, but in some computers the BIOS doesn't let FreeBSD see more than 16MB. You need to include a MAXMEN=<K_size>, where the parameter is your memory size in Kbytes, and recompile the kernel. I have a compaq with 20MB and it has the same problem. I could not see all 20MB until I recompiled the kernel. This info is in the handbook (also the instruction on how to recompile the kernel). Cheers.
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