From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 9 10:33:14 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA20555 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 10:33:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net (smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net [165.87.194.252]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id KAA20550 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 10:33:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id SAA61684; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 18:33:05 GMT Message-Id: <199612091833.SAA61684@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> Received: from slip166-72-219-96.ny.us.ibm.net(166.72.219.96) by smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net via smap (V1.3mjr) id smaB4IDmb; Mon Dec 9 18:32:32 1996 From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Bogdan.Roszkowski@adelaide.on.net" , "questions@freefall.freebsd.org" Date: Mon, 09 Dec 96 13:40:52 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Francisco Reyes's Registered PMMail 1.53 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: re:memory > 16MB ??? Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 9 Dec 1996 07:20:22 -0800 (PST), owner-questions-digest@freefall.freebsd.org wrote: >From: Bogdan Roszkowski >Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 18:34:49 +0930 >Subject: memory > 16MB ??? >can anyone help me with getting freebsd to use memory above 16mb??? >i have a Dell omniplex 590 with 64mb ram... >when the kernel boots i can see the following: >michal. I don't know the exact details, but in some computers the BIOS doesn't let FreeBSD see more than 16MB. You need to include a MAXMEN=, where the parameter is your memory size in Kbytes, and recompile the kernel. I have a compaq with 20MB and it has the same problem. I could not see all 20MB until I recompiled the kernel. This info is in the handbook (also the instruction on how to recompile the kernel). Cheers.