Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 09:01:19 -0500 From: "Matthew A. Kolb" <muk@bender.cl.msu.edu> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory probe finds only 64Mb Dell 2300 Message-ID: <19991117090119.A44760@bender.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <3832AE0E.7331B5F0@tpgi.com.au>; from eirvine@tpgi.com.au on Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 12:30:54AM %2B1100 References: <3832AE0E.7331B5F0@tpgi.com.au>
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Yep. we have 50+ of the 2300's and had to set MAXMEM on all of them. (the 64mb to 256mb jump was nice...hehehe) Apparently, the bios isn't passing the memory information properly on startup. ./kolb On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 12:30:54AM +1100, eirvine wrote: > Hi, > > Earlier last week I took delivery of a Dell 2300 with > 128 Mb of RAM. Both the 3.3 Release Generic kernel > and a fresh 3.3 stable kernel failed to probe the RAM > correctly, and only found 64 Mb. > > A new kernel with MAXMEM set to 128*1024 found all the RAM > and seems to be going fine. > > I thought this was no longer expected behaviour. Should I > collect full details (BIOS version, dmesg, motherboard) and > submit a full report? Or is this just normal? > > Eddie. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Matthew A. Kolb Michigan State University SCNC 110 Computer Center (517)355-4500 x 124 kolb@bender.cl.msu.edu "bugs?! we didn't have any bugs!" -jpc on SCNC v1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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