From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 12 12: 8:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C154714BFF for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 12:08:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA06913; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 12:06:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 12:06:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Frederico Pereira da Costa Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems in detecting RAM... In-Reply-To: <99Apr12.141040gmt.19713@gateway.dhi.dk> 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 Bye -stable. On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Frederico Pereira da Costa wrote: > I have a small computer at home that is acting as a router between my > internal network and the Web. > > This computer is an old Compaq with a 486 processor and 32 mega Ram and > a 527 meg Disk. > > the problem is for FreeBSD, it only detects 16 Mega of RAM and not 32 > Mega. The 32 Mega are detected in the computer startup and are tested > ok. > When i had Windows installed on this machine it would detect the correct > value of RAM. but now in FreeBSD only detects 16Mega. I thought at the > beginning maybe was because i was running 2.2.7 RELEASE, but after i > installed 3.1 RELEAS yesterday it still detects only 16 MEGAS > > Can someone help me ? This is a classic Compaq-ism. Try turning off the 16MB RAM hole in the BIOS or building your kernel with 'options MAXMEM=(32*1024)'. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message