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Macolm,
    you might want to post your problem or issue at:

http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html

If you do, please make sure to mark it as an issue for 'docs'.

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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