From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 12 13:21:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hyperhost.net (ether.lightrealm.com [207.159.132.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61E8714FC1; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 13:21:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patseal@hyperhost.net) Received: from port2.annex8.radix.net (port2.annex8.radix.net [205.252.108.2]) by hyperhost.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA29331; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 16:19:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 16:18:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Seal To: Frederico Pereira da Costa Cc: Stable , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems in detecting RAM... In-Reply-To: <99Apr12.141040gmt.19713@gateway.dhi.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Read the FAQ. You need to use MAXMEM in your kernel. Good Luck! ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make | really crappy operating systems." Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds hosting and Design http://www.freebsd.org - http://www.linux.org On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Frederico Pereira da Costa wrote: > Hi ... > > I have a small computer at home that is acting as a router between my > internal network and the Web. > > This computer is an old Compaq with a 486 processor and 32 mega Ram and > a 527 meg Disk. > > the problem is for FreeBSD, it only detects 16 Mega of RAM and not 32 > Mega. The 32 Mega are detected in the computer startup and are tested > ok. > When i had Windows installed on this machine it would detect the correct > value of RAM. but now in FreeBSD only detects 16Mega. I thought at the > beginning maybe was because i was running 2.2.7 RELEASE, but after i > installed 3.1 RELEAS yesterday it still detects only 16 MEGAS > > Can someone help me ? > > Thanks in advance > > Frederico > > P.S - And just to say that 3.1-RELEASE is a very fine release.... :-) > > -- > Frederico Pereira da Costa > Danish Hydraulic Institute > Phone: +45 45 179 100 > Fax: +45 45 762 567 > Email: mailto:fpc@dhi.dk > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message