Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 16:35:34 -0400 From: Geoffrey Robinson <geoffr@globalserve.net> To: Steve Friedrich <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing on a System with Too Much RAM Message-ID: <3630E896.4C91B46E@globalserve.net> References: <199810231936.PAA07035@laker.net>
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Steve Friedrich wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Oct 1998 14:09:30 -0400, Geoffrey Robinson wrote: > <snip> > > > >Yes there is a file called boot.config on the floppy. It's empty though. > > try putting the iosize command in there... It's still possibly too > late in the boot process... No luck. :( <snip> > See, I confused you too. It's tough to communicate in email and be > thorough, yet concise. > What I was trying to say, is that many motherboards have a mechanism > for reporting memory size that FreeBSD doesn't know about. Most people > that write to this list that need to know about MAXMEM or this iosize > trick have a system with over 64MB, but only 64MB is detected by > FreeBSD. We're on a path where we believe your machine is reporting > the full 1GB to FreeBSD and that's causing a panic. When you boot the > GENERIC kernel during install, did you look at the "avail memory" > reported by FreeBSD? Okay, I didn't notice this until now but there is a line at the top of the boot prompt screen showing the amount of memory. I'm not sure if that's the avail memory your talking about but I don't see anything else that could be. Anyway its showing 64M as expected. <snip> > There are possible problems with me building a GENERIC kernel that I > didn't think about before. I'm tracking -stable and there could be > problems using a kernel I build with the rest of 2.2.7R that you have. > If someone else on the list has a virgin 2.2.7R, and would be willing > to build a GENERIC kernel with MAXMEM set to 64MB or less, they would > be best. If you can get somebody to do that it would be a big help. -Geoff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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