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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 13:49:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com>
To: Chris Angell <chris62vw@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: RAM Memory Question
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Make sure that you have NOT enabled the memory hole in your BIOS.  This is
something that OS/2 needed.  I cannot say for certain if this is what is
causing your problem, but check it out.

Marco Radzinschi

E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com
AOL IM: CrackedBoy

Running FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386
 1:48PM  up 10 days, 16:03, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Chris Angell wrote:

> 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.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris Angell.
>
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