From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 17 16:39:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from prserv.net (out5.prserv.net [165.87.194.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D75414CD5 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 16:39:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from youlgok@attglobal.net) Received: from attglobal.net ([129.37.171.157]) by prserv.net (out5) with SMTP id <1999121800390624303r32jre>; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 00:39:06 +0000 Message-ID: <385AD805.7AB49248@attglobal.net> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 19:40:38 -0500 From: youlgok@attglobal.net Reply-To: youlgok@attglobal.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Nelson Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: HELP: Memory References: <385AD2E4.305599E9@attglobal.net> <19991217183141.A28849@dan.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message