From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 24 14:00:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA24121 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 14:00:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA24111 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 14:00:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with SMTP id UAA03724 ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 20:59:52 +0100 (BST) To: Ulf Schmidt cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: freeBSD limited to 16 MB In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 22 Apr 1996 11:56:13 +0200." Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 20:59:51 +0100 Message-ID: <3722.830375991@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ulf Schmidt wrote in message ID : > Hi Gary, > thanks for helping me with my custom kernel problem. Now there is another > problem. freeBSD only used 16 MB of the 32 installed. Are there any ways to > check the installed and used memory. > Regards, Ulf It could be that your BIOS is generating a ``hole'' in memory which the FreeBSD memory-tester finds and barfs on. I seem to remember David Greenman put in a fix for this, but I can't remember how to enable it... Sorry Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info.