From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 18 17:49:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D45737B403 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:49:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from columbia ([12.93.210.164]) by mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20011019004937.WDDP29594.mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net@columbia>; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 00:49:37 +0000 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" To: , Subject: RE: FreeBSD not recognizing memory Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:47:47 -0400 Message-ID: <012701c15837$ac16b760$6600000a@columbia> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 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 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of > Joe.Warner@smed.com > Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 10:48 AM > To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org > Subject: FreeBSD not recognizing memory > > Hi, > > 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. > > Can anyone tell me why this is happening and what > I can do to fix it? You need to define MAXMEM in the kernel configuration. I've got a ProLiant 1500 that does the same when using a GENERIC kernel. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message