From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 25 11:42:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3EE816A40F for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:42:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from CQG00620@nifty.ne.jp) Received: from mail.asahi-net.or.jp (mail2.asahi-net.or.jp [202.224.39.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91E4143D78 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:41:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from CQG00620@nifty.ne.jp) Received: from asahi-net.jp (l204142.ppp.asahi-net.or.jp [218.219.204.142]) by mail.asahi-net.or.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id BECCC15B13; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:41:31 +0900 (JST) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:41:31 +0900 From: Watanabe Kazuhiro To: freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: References: User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Shij=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/20.7 (i386--freebsd) MULE/4.0 (HANANOEN) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <20060925114131.BECCC15B13@mail.asahi-net.or.jp> Cc: Vo?ten?k Vladim?r Subject: Re: freebsd 6.1 floppy installation problem - boot loader finds only 16MB, but I have 256 MB - and it hangs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:42:02 -0000 Hi. At Sat, 23 Sep 2006 21:49:20 +0200, Vo?ten?k Vladim?r wrote: > I have an old HP NETSERVER PRO 2xpentium pro, 256 MB ram,=20 > and I tried to install the actual FREEBSD 6.1 there. I made 3=20 > floppies: boot, kernel1 and kernel2. When it starts booting from=20 > the boot floppy, the loader show I only have 16 MB of RAM=20 > (instead 256MB I have there). Then it asks for kernel1 and 2=20 > disk, and boot disk again. It gives me also the entry FREEBSD=20 > display with countdown - to choose boot type - default, no=20 > acpi, secure etc. I tried it all, but it alwaysl hangs after about 5=20 > second after any choice. So I must just reboot. I think it is just=20 > because the lack of RAM, because, I think it requirets at least 24=20 > MB of RAM. > I have found something about this on the web, that it is=20 > necessary options "MAXMEM=3Dn" to use all the RAM, because old=20 > BIOSes shows just first 16 MB or so, but I am just doing the=20 > installation. So how can I modify the kernel on the floppies to=20 > use such option during the installation from floppies? Or should I=20 > install from other media???Please can you help me with=20 > this??????How can I make the installation boot floppy see all the=20 > RAM I have? > Thank you very much for your reply. >=20 > Greetings >=20 > Vladim=EDr Vo=B9ten=E1k Choose "6. Escape to loader prompt" from the boot menu and enter the two lines to the loader(8) prompt: set hw.physmem=3D256M boot See loader(8) for details. It's the same thing that you specify "MAXMEM=3D256M" to your kernel configulation file. --- Watanabe Kazuhiro (CQG00620@nifty.ne.jp)