From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 13 08:45:16 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA19091 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 08:45:16 -0700 Received: from linc.cis.upenn.edu (root@LINC.CIS.UPENN.EDU [158.130.12.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA19085 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 08:45:14 -0700 Received: from aurora.cis.upenn.edu (AURORA.CIS.UPENN.EDU [158.130.6.3]) by linc.cis.upenn.edu (8.6.10/UPenn 1.4) with SMTP id LAA28362; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 11:45:06 -0400 Posted-Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 11:45:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 11:45:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "William A. Arbaugh" To: "Rashid Karimov." Cc: Greg Rowe , freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Kernel Config for > 16meg In-Reply-To: <199504122149.RAA06268@haven.ios.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 12 Apr 1995, Rashid Karimov. wrote: > Hi there, > > > > > I have some Compaq systems with EISA memory expansion boards running FreeBSD > > 2.0 (next to the latest Snap). The systems have 16 meg on the main board and 8 > > meg on the expansion board. The Compaq config utility and DOS both see 24 meg > > but FreeBSD only picks up 16. Is there a way to kludge the kernel so that it > > uses all 24 meg ? Thanks. > > Most probably you'll need to hack a kernel code - > it determines the memsize via BIOS call , which reports > wrong number on certain brands ( Gateway and Micron are > two examples). > Dell as well. You'll have to hack the kernel to see all of your memory. That's what I did. If you can't figure out how to do it based on Rashid's notes, email me and I'll forward my changes with some instructions. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Arbaugh email: waa@aurora.cis.upenn.edu office: Moore 102 phone: (215) 573-3639 FAX: (215) 573-2232 ------------------------------------------------------------------------