From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 8 00:12:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA04396 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 00:12:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA04388 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 00:12:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA27846; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 00:12:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 00:12:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: service cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pentium II and large RAM support? In-Reply-To: <352B2169.3F47@casecom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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