Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:57:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Joe Karthauser <jlk@pavilion.co.uk> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: memory in freebsd Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.94.961024115510.6378B-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <199610241743.SAA13613@deputy.pavilion.co.uk>
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On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Joe Karthauser wrote: > Hiya, > > I hope that someone's got the time to help me with this one ;) > > This is the state of things. I was running FreeBSD 2.0.5 on a pentium > 120 with 32mb of edo (4 pieces of 8mb). There were problems with the > Adaptec device driver and so I put in a 2.1.0 kernel which solved the > problem. > > I've now bought a pentium 200 pro with 82mb of ram (2 x 32mb in bank0 and > 2 x 8mb in bank 1) which I'm using with the original disks. The machine > runs fine, but the OS only recognises 64 mb of ram! ;( > > I've got 2.1.5 on CD and am tempted to start again with this release. > If I do this will I get the whole 82mb of ram available? > > Thanks in advance, > Joe. #1. 2.1.5R is recommended. 2.1.0R is no longer recommended now that 2.1.5 is released. #2 You need to build a kernel to detect more than 64MB of RAM, because the BIOS is unable to report RAM sizes larger than that. See MAXMEM in LINT. Tom
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