Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 11:45:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "William A. Arbaugh" <waa@aurora.cis.upenn.edu> To: "Rashid Karimov." <rashid@haven.ios.com> Cc: Greg Rowe <greg@mn.interact.net>, freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Kernel Config for > 16meg Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.950413114051.7163B-100000@aurora.cis.upenn.edu> In-Reply-To: <199504122149.RAA06268@haven.ios.com>
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On Wed, 12 Apr 1995, Rashid Karimov. wrote: > Hi there, > > > > > I have some Compaq systems with EISA memory expansion boards running FreeBSD > > 2.0 (next to the latest Snap). The systems have 16 meg on the main board and 8 > > meg on the expansion board. The Compaq config utility and DOS both see 24 meg > > but FreeBSD only picks up 16. Is there a way to kludge the kernel so that it > > uses all 24 meg ? Thanks. > > Most probably you'll need to hack a kernel code - > it determines the memsize via BIOS call , which reports > wrong number on certain brands ( Gateway and Micron are > two examples). > Dell as well. You'll have to hack the kernel to see all of your memory. That's what I did. If you can't figure out how to do it based on Rashid's notes, email me and I'll forward my changes with some instructions. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Arbaugh email: waa@aurora.cis.upenn.edu office: Moore 102 phone: (215) 573-3639 FAX: (215) 573-2232 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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