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To: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
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Subject: Re: Weird 2.2.2 memory troubles 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 30 Sep 1997 08:58:45 EDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 06:24:44 -0700
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>I put in 128MB of ram on a 2.2.2RELEASE box.
>
>If I dont change the kernel, it runs fine, but sees only 64MB ram.
>
>If I put in the maxmem= line and recompile the kernel, it sees the 128MB,
>but after the device probes, when /bin/sh is invoked to run rc it craps
>out with an error message saying /bin/sh aborted while running /etc/rc ,
>and gives me the option to press enter for a shell - I press enter and it
>aborts - I cant get a shell.  I had to reboot the other kernel.
>
>Any ideas where to look?  Is this just a 2.2.2 problem?  I have 2.1 and
>2.1.5R boxes running news with this at 128MB and they are fine = so Im
>kinda stumped.

   Sounds like your second bank of 64MB is bad.

-DG

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