From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 18 8:52:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CD2737B405 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 08:52:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 3305813607; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 08:52:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26FBCBA19; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 08:52:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 08:52:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD not recognizing memory In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20011018084726.S53044-100000@q.closedsrc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2001-10-18, Joe.Warner@smed.com scribbled: # I'm running FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE on a Compaq # Proliant 2500 server. # # When I reboot the server, the BIOS says it's got # 96mbs of RAM, which is correct. When FreeBSD # boots, it says it have only 16mbs of RAM, which is # not correct. I have a Compaq Proliant 2500 server where I work as well and it exhibits the same problems. The problem is documented in the FAQ, the Q&A can be found at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#REALLYBIGRAM What you will need to do is to build a custom kernel with the following line in the kernel configuration file: options "MAXMEM=x" where x is the amount of memory you have in kilobytes. In your case, you would replace x with 98304. From there, you can either continue to modify the kernel configuration to trim it down and build/install the new kernel with: /usr/sbin/config CONFIG_FILE cd ../../compile/CONFIG_FILE make depend make make install reboot (If you get an errors in the first step, check the CONFIG_FILE for any errors). -- Linh Pham [lplist@closedsrc.org] # Every solution breeds new problems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message