Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 15:11:18 +0800 From: "Paul King" <paulk@ether.online.sh.cn> To: <service@casecom.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Pentium II and large RAM support? Message-ID: <B0000014683@ers.online.sh.cn>
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U can get the answer from FAQ of FreeBSD. While FreeBSD failure to detect more than 64M memory, you should add: options "MAXMEM=131072" 131072=128*1024 to ur kernel config file, and rebuild the kernel. Good Lucky ---------- > From: service <service@casecom.com> > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Pentium II and large RAM support? > Date: Wednesday, April 08, 1998 3:04 PM > > 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 help or any response will be very appreciated. > > Thank you. > > -eric chen > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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