Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 02:13:51 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Etienne Ledoux <etienne@unix.za.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing freebsd: only detects 4mb ram Message-ID: <20050521071351.GE51092@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200505210850.12364.etienne@unix.za.org> References: <200505210850.12364.etienne@unix.za.org>
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In the last episode (May 21), Etienne Ledoux said: > ok, a long time ago I installed freebsd on an old beast. it has been > faithfull to me for a few years now. I want to reinstall it with > 5.4STABLE (not upgrade, I want to start fresh). But it only detects > 4mb of ram. it actually has 98mb of ram and I remember I had to > recompile the kernel to get freebsd to detect the rest of the ram. > but i can't remember how i managed to install it. I see the faq says > I need 5mb and for 5x I need 8mb. I can't put the drives in another > system because it's an old compaq raid array and I have no machine > where these drives would fit into. Is there any other possible way to > install this machine ? perhaps over nfs ? or a paramater at boot to > detect the rest of the ram ? Old Compaq machines are notorious for not reporting the right amount of RAM. Before the kernel loads, hit space and enter "setenv hw.physmem=98M" at the the loader prompt, then "boot". Once you're installed FreeBSD, you can add "hw.physmem=98M" to /boot/loader.conf instead of recompiling. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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