Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:18:09 +0100 (CET) From: Adam Szilveszter <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> To: eirvine <eirvine@tpgi.com.au> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory probe finds only 64Mb Dell 2300 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.991117151514.4111A-100000@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> In-Reply-To: <3832AE0E.7331B5F0@tpgi.com.au>
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On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, 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? Hi! As fas as I know, this is, hm, not normal but usual behavior:-) Current BIOS-es still have problems with passing the correct memory size to the kernel, only the current limit for this seems to be 64M, earlier it was less. See good explanation in LINT file for more. Cheers! Szilveszter ADAM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Adam Szilveszter * JATE Szeged * email: sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu * * Homepage : none * alternate email: cc@flanker.itl.net.ua * * Finger sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu for PGP key. * * I prefer using the door instead of Windows(tm)... * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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