From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 20 10:49:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37E6037B405 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 10:49:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16dbnq-0003OZ-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 18:49:18 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id EBA2713040 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 19:49:17 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 6002) id 6634822590; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 19:49:17 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 19:49:17 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAM Memory Question Message-ID: <20020220184917.GG3600@raggedclown.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 08:28:59AM -0800, Jesse Geddis wrote: > have you tried setting the MAXMEM option in your kernel? > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Chris Angell > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 8:27 AM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RAM Memory Question > > > Helpers, > > I have a FreeBSD machine running 4.5 Release. This machine has 256 megs of > ram. On startup, FreeBSD (or the boot loader?) recognizes the ram. It sees > all 256 megs. The message reads something like "BIOS Reports 256789Kb". > > When the kernel takes over booting, it complains something like "Memory Hole > in physical memory, giving up". The error is NOT in DMESG, though DMESG > does say that this machine has only 150 megs of real and 142 megs of > available memory. > > Does anyone have any ideas? This machine is a new 1 Ghz Athlon with two > sticks of PC-133 SDRAM. This problem is rather puzzling. Usually, in my > experiences, ram either does its thing like it's supposed to, or simply > renders the machine inoperable. > Look in your BIOS, you may find there an option to allow a memory hole, this used to be needed for some reason or another on another OS (something to do with ISA I think)..make sure it is disabled. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message