From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 20 20: 9:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from go4.ext.ti.com (dlezb.ext.ti.com [192.91.75.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B07DE37B402 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 20:09:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from dlep7.itg.ti.com ([157.170.134.103]) by go4.ext.ti.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1L49Nc04776; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 22:09:23 -0600 (CST) Received: from dlep7.itg.ti.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dlep7.itg.ti.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA03621; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 22:09:22 -0600 (CST) Received: from popsvr.india.ti.com (popsvr.india.ti.com [157.87.95.215]) by dlep7.itg.ti.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA03595; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 22:09:20 -0600 (CST) Received: from paspcsham (dhcp86222 [157.87.86.222]) by popsvr.india.ti.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA16052; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 09:39:17 +0530 (IST) Message-ID: <00cf01c1ba8e$32f4f040$de56579d@india.ti.com> From: "Gautham Ganapathy" To: Cc: "FreeBSD Questions @ FreeBSD.org" References: Subject: Re: RAM Memory Question Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 09:44:02 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i don't think MAXMEM is the problem. I have an Athlon with 256 MB RAM (2 PC133 sticks) and it worked fine out of the box. but i am running 4.3-RELEASE. would that make a difference ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jesse Geddis" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 9:58 PM Subject: RE: RAM Memory Question > have you tried setting the MAXMEM option in your kernel? > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Chris Angell > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 8:27 AM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RAM Memory Question > > > Helpers, > > I have a FreeBSD machine running 4.5 Release. This machine has 256 megs of > ram. On startup, FreeBSD (or the boot loader?) recognizes the ram. It sees > all 256 megs. The message reads something like "BIOS Reports 256789Kb". > > When the kernel takes over booting, it complains something like "Memory Hole > in physical memory, giving up". The error is NOT in DMESG, though DMESG > does say that this machine has only 150 megs of real and 142 megs of > available memory. > > Does anyone have any ideas? This machine is a new 1 Ghz Athlon with two > sticks of PC-133 SDRAM. This problem is rather puzzling. Usually, in my > experiences, ram either does its thing like it's supposed to, or simply > renders the machine inoperable. > > Thanks, > > Chris Angell. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message