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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On 6 Mar 1997, Zach Heilig wrote:

> 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.

MAXMEM is set to 64mb by default.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major