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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 10:07:44 -0600
From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to>
To: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com>
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Subject: Re: Compaq Prosignia and memory
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> Trying to install FreeBSD 4.2... Everything seems OK except for
> memory.  FreeBSD is only recognizing 16MB or less of installed
> memory. (double-checked this using dmesg)
> 
> Now this machine has both PCI and EISA slots.  I remember in the bad
> old days of Netware 3.1x, sometimes on EISA servers you had to
> manually "register memory" for it to see all the memory...

This reflects a limitation in your BIOS; it's limited to reporting
(incorrectly) 16 MB in CMOS RAM.  You can "hardcode" the amount of
memory you have in the kernel by using the `MAXMEM' option; see LINT
for details.  IIRC, you'll want

  options MAXMEM="(96*1024)"

for a 96-MB machine.

Good luck,
Lucas


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