Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 07:59:28 -0800 (PST) From: alexandr@mail.eecis.udel.edu To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>, Ralf Meyer <ralf@thp.uni-duisburg.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: RE: System freezes on reboot Message-ID: <19990317155928.0F0F414FC1@hub.freebsd.org>
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In Reply to Your Message of Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11: 37:26 +1030
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 10:58:51 -0500
From: Jerry Alexandratos <alexandr@mail.eecis.udel.edu>
Message-ID: <199903171058.aa23411@mail.eecis.udel.edu>
Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> says:
: On Tuesday, 16 March 1999 at 16:28:54 -0500, Patrick Seal wrote:
[stuff deleted]
: > Hmm, Interesting. My Dell Latitude Freezes during a reboot, so does
: > someone else's Latitude I know. I never thought that I might be the
: > MAXMEM.
:
: I think you missed the point that Ralf was disabling 32 MB of memory
: in order to get it to work at all.
:
: > I have it in my kernel and my Laptop freezes too.
: >
: > Any developers have any ideas?
:
: ISTR hearing something about this before. If you don't get any
: answers from the mailing lists, you should enter a PR. man send-pr
: for further details.
I'm not sure about the Dell's, but I know that for the StinkPads you
need set the MAXMEM to 1M less than the installed memory if you have
over 64M of memory. Some people I've talked to think it's due to a
problem with memory probing when mem > 64M. Others think that the IBM
bios are doing some funky stuff with that one meg and to just leave it
be.
So, for example, I've got a StinkPad 600E with 128M of memory. This is
what I have in my config file for it:
options "MAXMEM=(127*1024)"
Let me know how this works out.
--Jerry
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