From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 5 05:29:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF6D16A4CE; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 05:29:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vanadium.mailguard.com.au (vanadium.mailguard.com.au [66.235.184.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92D5B43D2D; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 05:29:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from css@flick.com.au) Received: from localhost (vanadium.mailguard.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by vanadium.mailguard.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36330200177; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 15:29:12 +1000 (EST) Received: from benton.flick.com.au (unknown [61.88.3.81]) by vanadium.mailguard.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADDB720016D; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 15:29:09 +1000 (EST) Received: from adric.flick.com.au (adric.flick.com.au [192.1.1.32]) by benton.flick.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 196F278D4C; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 15:29:08 +1000 (EST) Received: from romana (romana.flick.com.au [192.1.1.35]) by adric.flick.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1373AC005; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 15:29:08 +1000 (EST) From: "Christopher Smith" To: Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 15:29:08 +1000 Organization: WA Flick & Co. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 Thread-Index: AcRiUP5w5PW2+0IlRByJ9FlkjKlzPg== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.132 Message-Id: <20040705052908.1373AC005@adric.flick.com.au> X-MailGuard-ID: 40e8e7260f3331 X-Filtered: by MailGuard - visit http://www.mailguard.com.au cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Weird memory detection problem on Compaq M700 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 05:29:16 -0000 Apologies for the cross-post - this is mainly a hardware problem, but I've thrown it into -questions as well in case someone has already seen and fixed this issue. I have a Compaq Armada M700 that I used for a firewall. I've recently upgraded the memory in it to 320MB (64MB onboard + 256MB). The machine detects the memory fine. The FreeBSD bootloader detects the memory fine. However, when the kernel boots it only detects 64MB. What's weird, is that if I stick in a 128MB memory module then the kernel detects the full amount (192MB) fine. I realise I can use "options MAXMEM" to manually specify the amount of RAM in the machine, but it just struck me as rather strange that it detects 192MB fine but not 320MB (particularly since the bootloader sees it all). This is with FreeBSD 5.2.1. I've not tried it with 4.x. Has anyone else encountered this problem (and maybe fixed it) ? -- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ | Chris Smith | Flick Pest Control | | Systems Administrator | Suite G4, Zenith Data Centre | | p: +61 2 9495 9633 | 821-843 Pacific Highway | | f: +61 2 9495 9688 | Chatswood, NSW 2067 | | e: css@flick.com.au | Australia | +------------------------------------------------------+ -- Message protected by MailGuard: e-mail anti-virus, anti-spam and content filtering. http://www.mailguard.com.au/mg