From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 18 17:27:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59B80150A6 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 17:27:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@wnm.net) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA12355; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 19:27:15 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 19:27:15 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Dan Nelson Cc: youlgok@attglobal.net, FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: HELP: Memory In-Reply-To: <19991218152515.A43993@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Dec 18), Ben Smithurst said: > > Dan Nelson wrote: > > > > Are you sure you didn't mean /boot/loader.conf ? That's what `man > > loader.conf' would appear to suggest. > > Duh. You're right :) /boot/loader.conf is the correct filename. > > And if you still want to try the kernel option, it's "MAXMEM=49152". > The documentation is wrong; it should really read: > > options "MAXMEM=" > > Where is your memory in Kilobytes. For a 128 MB machine, you'd > want to use 131072. > Maybe you can avoid recompiling your kernel. Have you made sure you do not have a "15-16MB memory hole" (or something to that effect) enabled in your BIOS setup? -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message