Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 16:47:22 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: Jack Frost <jfrostx80@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird memory error Message-ID: <CAGH67wQCtuy5QQua=tjV491JUiYgZDHRYDEqXRRxs9vaYJ_ONg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1317510199.34235.YahooMailClassic@web114206.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1317510199.34235.YahooMailClassic@web114206.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Jack Frost <jfrostx80@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Someone told me to post my experiences here.I haven't used bsd in the past but anyhow i decided to try the live cd but had it result in systematic termination.apparently my bios was telling it or it was reading my memory as only having 600k of 3 gigs free(i have 4 gigs) so what i did to resolve this was to type set hw.physmem=2G and then it loaded perfectly.
Make sure that your BIOS isn't currently setup to only advertise
3GB. Some ASUS MBs I've dealt with (P5B, P5K) did this for instance;
it can confuse the stuff out of the OS if the BIOS lies.
-Garrett
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