Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 00:12:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: service <service@casecom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pentium II and large RAM support? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980408001153.27673M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <352B2169.3F47@casecom.com>
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On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, service wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed FreeBSD 2.2.2 on my Pentium II with 128MB memory. > But after the FreeBSD boot up, the system detect my PC as > > Pentium Pro and 66MB memory. > > The following is the portion of 'dmesg' > >FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE #0: Tue May 20 10:45:24 GMT 1997 > > jkh@time.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC > >CPU: Pentium Pro (233.86-MHz 686-class CPU) > >real memory = 68091904 (66496K bytes) > >avail memory = 63389696 (61904K bytes) > > I don't much care about the CPU but the memory only get detected half of > the size. Is this really the limit of FreeBSD? Or is there a new > released version that I need to obtain to get large memory support? Your BIOS is lying as to how much memory you have. See the FAQ -- rebuild your kernel with options "MAXMEM=131072" Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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