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To: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE>
cc: jd@alumni.cs.uwm.edu, bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: real memory = 68091904 (66496K bytes) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Oct 1997 03:00:32 +0200."
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Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 21:25:01 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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It's also fixed in 2.2-stable and 3.0-current; FreeBSD now auto-probes
for >64MB of memory correctly, thanks to David Greenman.

					Jordan

> > 
> > 	I have a pentium (P5) 200 MHz system, with 128 meg of edo
> > 	ram installed. The motherboard has the TX chipset, which
> > 	allows only the first 64 meg to be cache'able.
> > 
> > 	Why does unix only find 64 meg of ram?
> 
> I guess this belongs to the FreeBSD-questions list instead, because
> it's not a bug.
> You have to set 
> options         "MAXMEM=(128*1024)"
> in your kernel configurtion file. See /sys/i386/conf/LINT for more
> info about MAXMEM.
> 
> Wolfgang