Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 15:42:09 -0500 From: "Wm. Allen Vonderschmidt" <allen@vonderschmidt.org> To: "'Dan Nelson'" <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: RAM in a Compaq 2500. Message-ID: <003401c320a2$9d6d90a0$140a0aac@avlaptop> In-Reply-To: <20030522165741.GB1694@dan.emsphone.com>
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Thanks, by the time I got this from you I had already received a suggestion to add 'option MAXMEM="262144" ' into the kernel and recompile it. That has solved the issue. Thanks for the quick response to both Dan and Jon Gross. Allen -----Original Message----- From: Dan Nelson [mailto:dnelson@allantgroup.com] Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 11:58 AM To: Wm. Allen Vonderschmidt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAM in a Compaq 2500. In the last episode (May 22), Wm. Allen Vonderschmidt said: > I have a Compaq 2500 with 256MB of RAM installed. I have removed the > Win2K server installed and replaced it with FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE. > According to sysctl I seem to only have 12MB of RAM > (hw.physmem: 12099584). Win2K was seeing all 256MB until it was > replaced. Any suggestions as to where to check for the disconnect? > Thanks in advance. Compaq's don't return the right values to the BIOS memory calls, so you have to override the results. Try adding this to /boot/loader.conf: hw.physmem="256M" -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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