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Date:      Wed, 8 Apr 1998 12:12:00 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        service@casecom.com, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Pentium II & large memory support?
Message-ID:  <19980408121200.51941@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <352B2430.CEF@casecom.com>; from service on Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 12:16:00AM -0700
References:  <352B2430.CEF@casecom.com>

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On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 12:16:00AM -0700, service wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed FreeBSD 2.2.2 on my Pentium II with 128MB memory.
> But the system show me the system is a PentiumPro with 66MB memory.
> 
> Here is the portion of the output from dmesg:
> 
> FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE #0: Tue May 20 10:45:24 GMT 1997
>     jkh@time.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
> CPU: Pentium Pro (233.86-MHz 686-class CPU)
> real memory  = 68091904 (66496K bytes)
> avail memory = 63389696 (61904K bytes)
> 
> I am using SDRAM (128MB). Is it just a message error or there is a
> limit   size of memory in FreeBSD?

No.  I don't think 2.2.2 auto-probes large amounts of RAM, though -
you'll have to set 'MAXMEM' in your kernel config file or upgrade to
2.2.5 or newer.

I'd suggest using 2.2.6 anyway - it is a much better release than 2.2.2.

Eivind.


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