Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 03:08:03 -0500 From: "Alfred Perlstein" <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu> To: "spork" <spork@super-g.com>, "Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> Cc: "John Polstra" <jdp@polstra.com>, <lem@cantv.net>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SMP kernel on Compaq anyone? Message-ID: <000a01bd530e$24990ea0$0600a8c0@win95.local.sunyit.edu>
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there is an option in the LINT kernel to tell the machine not to trust the bios for the memory count, you can "hard wire" it. -Alfred -----Original Message----- From: spork <spork@super-g.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>; lem@cantv.net <lem@cantv.net>; hackers@FreeBSD.ORG <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Wednesday, March 18, 1998 10:14 PM Subject: Re: SMP kernel on Compaq anyone? > >On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Warner Losh wrote: > >> hmmm, that would explain why my presario reports 16M of memory when >> it, in fact, has 40M in it.... > >I have an old "ProSignia" (can't find a real model # no matter how hard I >try) that refuses to see more than 8M. I've thrown every kind of RAM >known to man in the thing. The "press F1 on reboot" thing is very >annoying as well. > >I do marvel at the FBSD VM stuff; it's just a measly 486/66 and it is >still able to run http/https, samba, dhcp, mail, sshd, web-proxy, and a >hacked up mail-web gateway with more speed than you would think could come >out of a 486 with 8M of memory. > >The thing you have to remember with Compaq is that you are screwed if you >use anything without a Compaq part number on it. Support stops the minute >you throw non-Compaq parts in it. Makes tech support easy for *them*, >but... > >Charles > >> >> I kinda like the torx T15 screws that they use to hold it together :-) >> Good luck finding them in the store, however. >> >> Warner >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message >> > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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