Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:20:24 -0500 From: Mark E Larson <markl@agis.net> To: dg@root.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extended memory in 2.2.1 Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970327112022.00cbf5d0@agisgate.agis.net>
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Howdy! This is my line in the kernel: options "MAXMEM=393216" After compile, on boot up I recieve this message: real memory = 402653184 (393216K bytes) kmem_suballoc: bad status return of 3 panic: kmem_suballoc Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press any key to reboot At 05:33 PM 3/26/97 -0800, David Greenman wrote: >>Howdy! >> >>Ok. I tried adding this line in the 2.2.1 kernel >> >>options "maxmem=1024*384" >> >>To reconize 384M of RAM. This worked under 2.1.5, but in 2.2.1 upon boot >>up the kernel says "memory bounce rebooting in 15 secs" > > Please provide the EXACT kernel message. I can't help you without that. >I see that people have already pointed out that the above should be: > >options "MAXMEM=393216" > > ...as the arithmetic may not work as intended. Be sure the kernel reports >the proper amount of memory in the startup message. Also, it is not necessary >to send messages like this to multiple mailing lists. hackers or questions >would have been sufficient. > >-DG > >David Greenman >Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project > > ################################################################### A P E X G L O B A L I N F O R M A T I O N S E R V I C E S ################################################################### Network Operations Center 313-730-5151 noc@agis.net News Administration 313-730-5151 news@agis.net Business Office/Sales 313-730-1130 sales@agis.net Visit our Web Page: http://www.agis.net Network News Information: http://agisgate.agis.net/netnews/netnews.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Don't throw a HSSI...and drop that ethernet!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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