Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 07:35:24 -0800 (PST) From: opentrax@email.com To: mjmac@pineview.net Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The FAQ-- a request for an addition to it: Message-ID: <200011231535.HAA02229@spammie.svbug.com> In-Reply-To: <001f01c054e8$ea898200$28ba26cb@apollo>
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Macolm,
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On 23 Nov, Malcolm McGrath wrote:
> Could you please add in the FAQ that you will need to recompile the kernel
> somewhere in the section of the FAQ below.
>
> I assumed wrongly that this option was like kernel boot time option and went
> around half arsed looking for it. :).
>
> Thanks for reading this email.
>
> Malcolm McGrath
> (Yes i am a newbie.)
>
> <QUOTE FROM FAQ>
>>3.11. I have 128 MB of RAM but the system only uses 64 MB.
>
>>Due to the manner in which FreeBSD gets the memory size from the BIOS, it
>>can only detect 16 bits worth of Kbytes in size (65535 Kbytes = 64MB) (or
>>less... some BIOSes peg the memory size to 16M). If you have more than
>>64MB, FreeBSD will attempt to detect it; however, the attempt may fail.
>>
>>To work around this problem, you need to use the kernel option specified
>>below. There is a way to get complete memory information from the BIOS, but
>>we don't have room in the bootblocks to do it. Someday when lack of room in
>>the bootblocks is fixed, we'll use the extended BIOS functions to get the
>>full memory information...but for now we're stuck with the kernel option.
>>
>>options "MAXMEM=n"
>>
>>Where n is your memory in Kilobytes. For a 128 MB machine, you'd want to
>>use 131072.
> </QUOTE>
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