Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 10:17:45 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Robin Melville <robmel@nadt.org.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Invisible memory on on Compaq prolinea Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970310101639.1052F-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970310100020.0069daa8@wrcmail>
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On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Robin Melville wrote: > I'm running a Compaq Prolinea 5/90 as an X workstation under FreeBSD 2.10 > (pending the 2.2 release). I upgraded from 16 to 32Mb but although the bios > reports the added memory on boot, FreeBSD can't see it. I tried swapping > simms and simm types to no avail. However much memory I add, and in whatever > configuration, FreeBSD can't see more than 16Mb. > > Anything else I can try, or is it just a wierdness of the Compaq motherboard. My guess would be Compaq wierdness. You may be afflicted with the same bug as someone else here. Try rebuilding your kernel with options "MAXMEM=32768" and see if that helps. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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