Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 14:41:20 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Hamid Reza Hashemi Golpayegani <hamid@morva.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 256M of RAM ! Message-ID: <20000524144120.D15434@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <000501bfc5af$aab21750$051414c8@hashemi>; from "Hamid Reza Hashemi Golpayegani" on Wed May 24 23:11:24 GMT 2000 References: <000501bfc5af$aab21750$051414c8@hashemi>
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In the last episode (May 24), Hamid Reza Hashemi Golpayegani said: > Hi , > > I have installed FreeBSD 4.0 on an i386 paltform machine with PIII > 500 CPU . I have installed 256 M of RAM but freebsd basically know > only 64 M of it's ram . When I add this line : > > options MAXMEM="(256*1024)" 4.0 shouldn't need any MAXMEM or similar options to detect memory, except on broken hardware that doesn't report memory correctly (many Compaqs). BTW, a kernel recompile is no longer needed. Just put this in /boot/loader.conf instead: hw.physmem="256M" -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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