From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 28 3: 2: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A890C37B400 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 03:02:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web12504.mail.yahoo.com (web12504.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D95143E65 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 03:02:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zagarna@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020828100159.49186.qmail@web12504.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [151.30.32.55] by web12504.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 03:01:59 PDT Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 03:01:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Antonio Subject: incorrect memory amount detected at boot To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello After upgrading FreeBSD 4.6 stable on an old compaq proliant it's reading the wrong memory amount from the BIOS at boot time like so: BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive B: is disk1 BIOS 638kB/15360kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 ... just before booting the kernel. the server has 256MB of ram installed. this problem has probably been there for more than a month (since the last upgrade in july) but it wasn't noticed until last week. a recent buildworld/installworld (finished on monday) did not solve the problem. I'm sure it's a software problem, because I tried changing all components of the server but the disks. HELP! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message