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To: "Francisco Reyes" <reyes01@ibm.net>
cc: Bogdan.Roszkowski@adelaide.on.net, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: memory > 16MB ??? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 09 Dec 1996 13:40:52."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 15:24:18 -0800
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>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=<K_size>, where the parameter is your memory size in Kbytes,
^^^^^^^^
>and recompile the kernel.

   That should be options "MAXMEM=<n>", where <n> is #Kbytes. 65536 for 64MB,
for example.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project