From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 23 13:56:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA09322 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 13:56:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp1.globalserve.net (smtp1.globalserve.net [209.90.144.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09306 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 13:56:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from geoffr@globalserve.net) Received: from globalserve.net (dialin1155.toronto.globalserve.net [209.90.134.138]) by smtp1.globalserve.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA15565; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 16:52:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from geoffr@globalserve.net) Message-ID: <3630E896.4C91B46E@globalserve.net> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 16:35:34 -0400 From: Geoffrey Robinson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Friedrich , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing on a System with Too Much RAM References: <199810231936.PAA07035@laker.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Friedrich wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Oct 1998 14:09:30 -0400, Geoffrey Robinson wrote: > > > > >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. :( > 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. > 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