From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 12 10:35:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94C681556E for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:35:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA29119; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:35:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200001121835.KAA29119@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: 3.4-RELEASE and ThinkPad 770Z with 256MB memory In-Reply-To: <200001121817.LAA05163@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Jan 12, 2000 11:17:47 am" To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:35:26 -0800 (PST) Cc: erich@ucsd.edu (Eric Hedstrom), e-masson@kisoft-services.com (Eric Masson), lluisma@osi-technologies.com (lluisma), stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > [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