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Date:      Fri, 17 Dec 1999 19:40:38 -0500
From:      youlgok@attglobal.net
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: HELP: Memory
Message-ID:  <385AD805.7AB49248@attglobal.net>
References:  <385AD2E4.305599E9@attglobal.net> <19991217183141.A28849@dan.emsphone.com>

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It's Compaq(486-DX-66Mhz) as you suspected.  The actual memory size is 48MB.
But it seems the FreeBSD recognizes only 16MB.  How can I fix this?

Dan Nelson wrote:

> In the last episode (Dec 17), youlgok@attglobal.net said:
> > Hello, all.
> >
> > I think my FreeBSD box can't recognize real memory size.  When it boots
> > up, it prompts 49152KB.  But in dmesg, it displays:
> >
> > ...
> > real memory  = 16777216 (16384K bytes)
> > ...
> > avail memory = 13037568 (12732K bytes)
> > ...
> >
> > What is wrong here and how can I fix this?  The kernel is generic and
> > it's FBSD-3.3-stable.
>
> What hardware is this running on?  I know Compaqs make it difficult to
> probe memory.
>
> --
>         Dan Nelson
>         dnelson@emsphone.com



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