From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 7 21:20:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA14852 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 21:20:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA14847 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 21:20:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (fullermd@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA08081; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 21:18:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 21:18:43 -0700 (PDT) From: The Devil Himself To: Adrian Chadd cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re : FreeBSD having problems detecting RAM? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Hi. > > I have a pentium machine that now has 64mb RAM in it. > However most of the time it detects *only* 8mb RAM. > I've compiled numerous test kernels, with and without > MAXMEM set to 65536 but it still comes up as 8mb RAM. > > Has anyone come across this before? > > (Its running 2.2.1-RELEASE) Not particularly, but I have a similar problem. Cyrix 166, w/ 24 MB of RAM installed. 95 setects and uses it just fine, but FreeBSD would only see 16MB. I didn't have the Hard drive space to get the source dist and recompile my kernel. I posted a question and got various suggestions, such as going into kernel config and setting memsize or iosize on npx0 to 24576 (memsize in KB). I tried all these suggestions to no avail. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* |FreeBSD is good. FreeBSD is our friend. UNIX is our god.| *Micro$oft is bad. Micro$oft causes problems.* |MicroBSD??? I DON'T THINK SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!| |"I hate quotes in signature files" :-} MAtthew Fuller| *fullermd@narcissus.ml.org FreeBSD junkie* |http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd Westminster College| *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*