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Date:      Sat, 18 Dec 1999 19:27:15 -0600 (CST)
From:      Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Cc:        youlgok@attglobal.net, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: HELP: Memory
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.4.05.9912181920320.11800-100000@earth.wnm.net>
In-Reply-To: <19991218152515.A43993@dan.emsphone.com>

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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=<n>"
> 
>     Where <n> 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


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