From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 11 07:58:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA10014 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 07:58:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA09970 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 07:58:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA01063; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:56:47 +0200 Message-ID: <35F93A2E.EED15343@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:56:46 +0200 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del País Vasco - Dept. Electricidad y Electrónica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mw@freibergnet.de CC: Roland Jesse , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: >64M memory References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Martin Welk wrote: > > On 10-Sep-98 Roland Jesse wrote: > > () > Is there something I need to do to enable >64Mg on a 2.2.7 machine. > () The 'problem' seem to be worked out. My 2.2.7 recognized all 128 MB RAM > () out of the box. > > AFAIR, there was the problem that older PC BIOSes don't write the correct > memory size into BIOS variables due to size limitations of that space. So > you probably have to put the max. RAM size FreeBSD should recognize into > the kernel config file for your machine. Have a look at the documentation, > but before, have a look at your kernel boot output (dmesg, > /var/log/messages) if it recognizes all of your RAM. > I had a "64 MB problem" when first booted my machine, which is based on an Iwill PIILS mb (Award BIOS) and has 128 MB of RAM. After fiddling a little with the BIOS settings, I found that the "memory hole at 64M" was active. This setting prevented FreeBSD from detecting the RAM over the 64M limit. When I deactivated the "memory hole", FreeBSD detected all the 128M of RAM. -- JM ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jose M. Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del Pais Vasco | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica | Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-944647700 x2624 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-944858139 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Go ahead... make my day." - H. Callahan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message