From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 20 20:43:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jester.ti.com (jester.ti.com [192.94.94.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1198837B402 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 20:43:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from dlep7.itg.ti.com ([157.170.134.103]) by jester.ti.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1L4hT903397; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 22:43:29 -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 WAA28558; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 22:43:28 -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 WAA28538; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 22:43:26 -0600 (CST) Received: from paspcsham (dhcp86222 [157.87.86.222]) by popsvr.india.ti.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA21404; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:13:24 +0530 (IST) Message-ID: <001901c1ba92$f648c400$de56579d@india.ti.com> From: "Gautham Ganapathy" To: Cc: "FreeBSD Questions @ FreeBSD.org" References: Subject: Re: RAM Memory Question Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:18:08 +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 am not the original poster. my system works fine with no problems. every byte in the 256 MB working properly (hopefully) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jesse Geddis" To: "Gautham Ganapathy" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions @ FreeBSD.org" Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 10:02 AM Subject: RE: RAM Memory Question > I wouldn't call seeing half your ram working fine out of the box. you said your > machine sees it fine ala bios moving onto the kernel which is where you said > problem is. again, try setting the below in your kernel when you compile it > # MAXMEM specifies the amount of RAM on the machine; > > it sounds like you're looking at it as a hardware problem which it doesn't > appear to be since like you said your machine boots past BIOS. tell your kernel > how much ram you have since it isn't seeing it all. there is no other way that I > know of to tell your kernel specifically how much RAM you have which is what you > need to do. > > try setting > options MAXMEM="(256*1024)" > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gautham Ganapathy [mailto:gauthamg123list@yahoo.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 8:14 PM > To: sgeine@yahoo.com > Cc: FreeBSD Questions @ FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: RAM Memory Question > > > 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 > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > 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