From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 24 12:41:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3705337B591 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 12:41:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA23333; Wed, 24 May 2000 14:41:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 14:41:20 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Hamid Reza Hashemi Golpayegani Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 256M of RAM ! Message-ID: <20000524144120.D15434@dan.emsphone.com> References: <000501bfc5af$aab21750$051414c8@hashemi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <000501bfc5af$aab21750$051414c8@hashemi>; from "Hamid Reza Hashemi Golpayegani" on Wed May 24 23:11:24 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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