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Date:      Mon, 26 Apr 1999 10:16:44 -0700
From:      Zheng Bokui <bokui@sin.photronics.com>
To:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Memory
Message-ID:  <3724AD8C.613F39F6@sin.photronics.com>

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Hi,
I'm new to freebsd and just installed FreeBSD 3.1-stable in my old
Compaq prolinea 5100e PC (Pentium/100 CPU, 32MB RAM and 2.5GB HDD). But
the machine seems only use 16MB RAM. Here is part of the output from
dmesg:


Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights
reserved.
FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 15 11:08:08 GMT 1999
    jkh@usw3.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
CPU: Pentium/P54C (75.17-MHz 586-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x526  Stepping=6
  Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
real memory  = 16777216 (16384K bytes)
avail memory = 13307904 (12996K bytes)
Bad BIOS32 Service Directory!
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xf0340000.
Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
chip0: <Host to PCI bridge (vendor=1004 device=0007)> rev 0x01 on
pci0.0.0
chip1: <PCI to ISA bridge (vendor=1004 device=0008)> rev 0x01 on
pci0.1.0
vga0: <Cirrus Logic GD5434 SVGA controller> rev 0xfc on pci0.2.0
wdc0: <CMD 640B IDE> rev 0x02 int a irq 14 on pci0.3.0
xl0: <3Com 3c905B Fast Etherlink XL 10/100BaseTX> rev 0x24 int a irq 11
on pci0.
20.0
xl0: Ethernet address: 00:10:4b:0e:e8:c1
xl0: autoneg complete, link status good (half-duplex, 10Mbps)



What's going wrong here? How can I use all the 32MB RAM?

TIA,
Bokui



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