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To: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net>
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Subject: Re: Rel 3.3 on ThinkPad 600E 
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Try removing the MAXMEM line and instead adding 'options VM86'.   I'm 
still looking for reports from people about this; we ought to be getting 
this right in 4.0 (but of course nobody is going to test _that_ until 
after we release it... sheesh).


> This may sound a little strange but subtract 1024 and recompile with;
> options 	MAXMEM=162816
> 
> I had the same problem with my 600E and 128 megs or ram...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 10:46 AM 12/9/99 -0500, jkendall@Celestica.com wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >Hi all.
> >
> >I have a problem with FreeBSD 3.3 running on my ThinkPad 600E (160Meg,
> 6.4Giga,
> >etc)
> >
> >While running with 32Meg, I configured the kernel with
> >
> >options        MAXMEM=163840
> >
> >Now it boots with 160Meg but almost randomly freezes.
> >
> >Just before it freezes, sometimes it will sound 5 short beeps. Sometimes it
> >won't.
> >
> >Any thoughts ???
> >
> >
> >-
> >Jerry
> >
> >
> >
> >
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