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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



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