From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 28 10:45: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EFD214BE4 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 10:44:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.2) with ESMTP id ; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 10:51:10 -0800 Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1210.bossig.com [208.26.241.210]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA01044; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 10:44:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38417864.AAB521F6@3-cities.com> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 10:45:56 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joao Carlos Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: COMPAQ PROSIGNIA 200 References: <000f01bf3a8b$0ab20fd0$0400a8c0@bahianet.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joao Carlos wrote: > > Hi people, > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 3.3-R on a COMPAQ PROSIGNIA 200 with > 64MB of RAM. > The system installs correctly, but it show me only 16Mb of real > memory in the boot. > I have booted the machine with a Win9x diskete and it shows me the > 64Mb. > I've booted the machine with an OpenBSD diskete, and it shows me > only 16Mb > And finally i booted it using a SuSE Linux diskete and it showed me > 64Mb. > Does anyone know what is this? And how can i solve this? You have to build a kernel with MAXMEM properly specified. See the LINT for the structure. Some (Most ?) Compaq's and now some Dell's have a problem communicating the memory size to FreeBSD. You get around this brain-dead area by specifying the real size of your memory. Kent > > Thanks! > > --- > Joao Carlos > jcarlos@bahianet.com.br > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message