Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 10:11:43 +0200 (MET DST) From: Joachim Kuebart <joa@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> Subject: Re: Can't put 512MB ram in box ... Extended memory question. Message-ID: <XFMail.970426112026.joa@delos.lf.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970425233247.00b2da68@mixcom.com>
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On 26-Apr-97 Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote:
>At 08:01 PM 4/24/97 -0400, Robert Withrow wrote:
>>Can someone tell my why WIN95 can figure out I have 128M in this machine
>>(with no special help from me) and FreeBSD can't? I don't like the idea
>>of WIN95 being smarter than FreeBSD.... ;-)
Is the MAXMEM option correctly set in the kernel config file, like:
options "MAXMEM=(128*1024)"
>
>Smarter? Not! I've seen 2 95 machines that would not recognize more than
>64Mb and yes BIOS did see it, nor did it violate any rules for the number
>of "sides" for memory.
>
>Good 'ole errartic MS.
>
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