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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>
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Subject: Re: Will freebsd run with a single 16 meg non parity 72 pin simm?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.961010223620.14143A-100000@wakko.gil.net> from Keith Leonard at "Oct 10, 96 10:40:10 pm"
To: keithl@gil.net (Keith Leonard)
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:39:53 +0200 (MET DST)
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Keith Leonard writes:
> On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, David Snodgrass wrote:
>
>>
>> see subject for question...
>> linux won't run with my ram...will free bsd?
>
> I may be going out on a limb here but one of my machines runs Linux and
> Freebsd 2.1.5 with a single 16 meg non parity simms chip. You may want to
> check the simms - I had a bad 8 in another machine that screwed everything
> up during install for both Linux and FreeBSD. Make sure your machine
> allows single simms modules (some don't and require 2 8's to get 16)
>
> If I'm wrong - I appologize to the group for responding - but I am doing
> it.

No need to apologize.  I think you've summed it up quite nicely: if
the machine is designed to run with one SIMM, as 486s are, but Linux
doesn't run, then it's probably a hardware problem.  Under those
circumstances, FreeBSD almost certainly would not run either.

Greg