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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Invisible memory on on Compaq prolinea
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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