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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
>
>
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