Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 08:57:32 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.4-RELEASE and ThinkPad 770Z with 256MB memory Message-ID: <200001121657.IAA02419@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:46:35 MST." <200001121646.JAA04479@mt.sri.com>
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> > > I think you're right about what the problem is, but the solution will be a > > > little trickier in this case--the 770Z has 128MB built in. > > > > > > > What if you interrupt the boot process (hit a spacebar before > > the 10 seconds are up)... > > > > disk0s4a> set kern.vm.kmem.size=67108864 > > This is set too late in the boot process, since it's after the memory > sizing has been done. That's correct; you want hw.physmem, but in 4.x where that's available the memory probe itself has been improved to the point where it's not typically necessary to set it... -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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