Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:35:26 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: erich@ucsd.edu (Eric Hedstrom), e-masson@kisoft-services.com (Eric Masson), lluisma@osi-technologies.com (lluisma), stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.4-RELEASE and ThinkPad 770Z with 256MB memory Message-ID: <200001121835.KAA29119@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <200001121817.LAA05163@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Jan 12, 2000 11:17:47 am"
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> > [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > > 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. > > > > Use the npx0 hack, boot -c and set the iosiz of npx0 to 65536, which > > should cause the machine to come up thinking it has 64M. Arrghhh... it isn't iosiz, its msize, I read the comments in LINT instead of the code in machdep.c and trusted them :-(. > See previous email, where I mentioned this happens too late in the boot > process. This *would* cause the next bootup to have the smaller amount > *IF* this information was saved, but on the boo floppy it is not. > > However, this does not help on the boot floppy, since it's going to use > the probed amount. > > (And yes, I have verified that this is indeed the case on my ThinkPad, > and attempted the exact same thing Rod mentioned above.) > > > > Nate > -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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