From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 18 3:58:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F75714F0E for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 03:58:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.4] ident=ben) by scientia.demon.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.092 #1) id 11zHxw-000L3H-00; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 11:24:00 +0000 Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 11:24:00 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Dan Nelson Cc: youlgok@attglobal.net, FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: HELP: Memory Message-ID: <19991218112400.B825@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <385AD2E4.305599E9@attglobal.net> <19991217183141.A28849@dan.emsphone.com> <385AD805.7AB49248@attglobal.net> <19991217184242.A29038@dan.emsphone.com> <385ADCB1.AB73CB1D@attglobal.net> <19991217193457.A29895@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <19991217193457.A29895@dan.emsphone.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Dec 17), youlgok@attglobal.net said: >> Dan Nelson wrote: >>> In the last episode (Dec 17), youlgok@attglobal.net said: >>>> 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? >>> >>> edit (or create) /etc/loader.conf, add the line >>> >>> set hw.physmem=49152 >>> >>> and reboot. >> >> Thanks a lot for your quick help. I created /etc/loader.conf and write >> the line. But it still doesn't recognize the actual memory size yet. >> What should I do now? > > Hm. That should have worked. The other way is to rebuild your kernel > after adding Are you sure you didn't mean /boot/loader.conf ? That's what `man loader.conf' would appear to suggest. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message