From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 3 09:46:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2ECE16A4BF for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:46:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phoenix.gargantuan.com (rrcs-se-24-73-171-238.biz.rr.com [24.73.171.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BFFC43F93 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:46:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@gargantuan.com) Received: from cyclops.gargantuan.com (cyclops.gargantuan.com [3ffe:c00:8034:a00::18]) by phoenix.gargantuan.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 484F4294; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:54:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "Michael W. Oliver" To: Vince Hoffman , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:45:56 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <3500515B75D9D311948800508BA37955014BDFBA@EX-LONDON> In-Reply-To: <3500515B75D9D311948800508BA37955014BDFBA@EX-LONDON> PersonalEmail: michael@gargantuan.com wwwSite: http://michael.gargantuan.com GPGPubKey: $wwwSite/gnupg/pubkey.asc HomePhone: +1-863-816-8091 MobilePhone: +1-863-738-2334 HomeAddress: 8008 Apache Lane, Lakeland, FL, US 33810-2172 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_PrhV/dyqldrdqHP"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200309031246.07155.michael@gargantuan.com> Subject: Re: Old proliant memory detection X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: michael@gargantuan.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 16:46:58 -0000 --Boundary-02=_PrhV/dyqldrdqHP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline +--- On Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:31, | Vince Hoffman proclaimed: | | Hi all, | I'm running 4.8-RELEASE on an ancient Dual P.Pro proliant, and its | not correctly detecting how much RAM i have, is there a way to tell | FreeBSD the correct amount? I'm sure i saw something on the list about | this a while back but my googling hasnt come up with anything. :( | Yeah, I have a couple old Proliant 5000R's, and this was always a problem=20 for me. I added this statement to my kernel config to make it detect and=20 use all of the memory: options MAXMEM=3D"(128*1024)" In this case, the 128 represents the amount of RAM you have in MB. From=20 LINT: # MAXMEM specifies the amount of RAM on the machine; if this is not # specified, FreeBSD will first read the amount of memory from the CMOS # RAM, so the amount of memory will initially be limited to 64MB or 16MB # depending on the BIOS. If the BIOS reports 64MB, a memory probe will # then attempt to detect the installed amount of RAM. If this probe # fails to detect >64MB RAM you will have to use the MAXMEM option. # The amount is in kilobytes, so for a machine with 128MB of RAM, it would # be 131072 (128 * 1024). =2D-=20 Mike perl -e 'print unpack("u","88V]N=3D&%C=3D\"!I;F9O(&EN(&AE861E