From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 4 7:53: 7 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 07:53:05 2001 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kronos.hostuniverse.hu (gep18-5.nyircatv.broadband.hu [195.184.160.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0316C37B400 for <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 07:53:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from witch@localhost) by kronos.hostuniverse.hu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f04FqwG92235 for FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 16:52:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from witch) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 16:52:58 +0100 From: Andrew Prewett <prewett@kronos.HostUniverse.net> To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory upgrade in 2.2.6 Message-ID: <20010104165258.B91914@kronos.hostuniverse.hu> Reply-To: Andrew Prewett <prewett@hostuniverse.net> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <4.3.2.7.0.20010104162849.00b668f0@pop3.malawi.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20010104162849.00b668f0@pop3.malawi.net>; from kondwani@malawi.net on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:38:26PM +0200 X-Mailbox: SENT-MESSAGES Sender: witch@kronos.hostuniverse.hu Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:38:26PM +0200, Kondie wrote: > Hello, > > I have lately upgraded my FreeBSD 2.2.6 box with a single 128 MB DIMM from > 32 MB. The system runs on a Compaq Presario 5070 and the computer registers > 128MB when starting up whereas in FreeBSD, when I check out dmesg it says: > > real memory = 16777216 (16384K bytes) > avail memory = 14376960 (14040K bytes) > > I would like to know if there is anything I can do so that FreeBSD > registers the full 128MB as the CMOS does, cause I believe from the dmesg > results the system is seeing 16MB instead of 128MB. > I don't know if it works with 2.2.6, but you can try to putting this line in your kernel config file and recompile. options MAXMEM="(128*1024)" Cheers, Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message