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From: "Paul King" <paulk@ether.online.sh.cn>
To: <service@casecom.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Pentium II and large RAM support?
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 15:11:18 +0800
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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

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> 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
> 
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