From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 6 00:51:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA06006 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 00:51:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from murkwood.gaffaneys.com (dialup2.gaffaneys.com [134.129.252.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA05988 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 00:51:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from zach@localhost) by murkwood.gaffaneys.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA02035; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 02:52:05 -0600 (CST) To: Doug White Cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAM References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.103) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Zach Heilig Date: 06 Mar 1997 02:52:04 -0600 In-Reply-To: Doug White's message of Wed, 5 Mar 1997 17:48:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <87sp291jyj.fsf@murkwood.gaffaneys.com> Lines: 31 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.15/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Doug" == Doug White writes: > On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: >> I have 24 MB, but the kernel only reports finding 16MB of 'real >> memory' on bootup. Is it detecting my extra RAM, and just not >> reporting it, and is it using it, or what? > Does your BIOS see it? Most likely you: > 1. Didn't buy enough SIMMS to fill the bank. > 2. Have different type or speed SIMMs with a motherboard that > won't take them. > 3. Have bad SIMMs. > See your motherboard documentation for more details. Or, 4, Some motherboards BIOS only report up to 16 Meg (all the rest seem to have a limit of 64 Meg). Try setting the "MAXMEM" config variable (see /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT for details). I heard a rumor you could also set it from the user kernel config (use the -c option on boot), but I've never actually tried that. -- Zach Heilig (zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com) | ALL unsolicited commercial email Support bacteria -- it's the only | is unwelcome. I avoid dealing form of culture some people have! | with companies that email ads.