Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:39:53 +0200 (MET DST) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> To: keithl@gil.net (Keith Leonard) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: Will freebsd run with a single 16 meg non parity 72 pin simm? Message-ID: <199610201639.SAA13343@freebie.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.961010223620.14143A-100000@wakko.gil.net> from Keith Leonard at "Oct 10, 96 10:40:10 pm"
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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
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