From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 4 13:52:50 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 13:52:46 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (t3-d-static-237.adsl.directlink.net [63.68.131.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1477937B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 13:52:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brune@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f04Emh814239; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 14:48:43 GMT Message-Id: <200101041448.f04Emh814239@sdf.lonestar.org> Subject: Re: Memory upgrade in 2.2.6 To: kondwani@malawi.net (Kondie) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 14:48:42 +0000 (GMT) From: "Corey Brune" Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20010104162849.00b668f0@pop3.malawi.net> from "Kondie" at Jan 04, 2001 04:38:26 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, in your kernel config put: options MAXMEM="(128*1024)" This should make fBSD "see" your 128M. Hope this helps! Corey > > Hello, > > I have lately upgraded my FreeBSD 2.2.6 box with a single 128 MB DIMM from > 32 MB. The system runs on a Compaq Presario 5070 and the computer registers > 128MB when starting up whereas in FreeBSD, when I check out dmesg it says: > > real memory = 16777216 (16384K bytes) > avail memory = 14376960 (14040K bytes) > > I would like to know if there is anything I can do so that FreeBSD > registers the full 128MB as the CMOS does, cause I believe from the dmesg > results the system is seeing 16MB instead of 128MB. > > Regards, > > Kondie. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message