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From: "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@train.tgci.com>
To: Richard Laxton <richard@real.net.au>
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> From:          jivko@ijs.com
> At 06:45 AM 6/16/97 +1000, Richard Laxton wrote:
[snip]

> On another topic: Have any of you had any problems running FreeBSD on a
> COMPAQ machine (P133)? I discovered yesterday that FreeBSD 2.1. would not
> read the memory size properly and would use only 16MB on a COMPAQ machine
> with 72MB. Recompiling the kernel with the memory size took care of the
> problem, but I was wondering if it is just me or a typical problem with
> COMPAQ.
> 
> Jivko
> Regards,
> 
> Jivko Koltchev
 

I don't have any hands on experience with fbsd/compaq but do recall 
a similar problem on a Compaq with, I think, 32 MB ram.  

Additionally, doesn't any fbsd machine require a recompile for >64 
MB?

Cheers,

Riley