Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 23:53:03 -0400 (EDT) From: "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@netwalk.com> To: Zheng Bokui <bokui@sin.photronics.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Memory Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904252350380.1766-100000@insomnia.local.net> In-Reply-To: <3724AD8C.613F39F6@sin.photronics.com>
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Because this is a Compaq I won't promise that this will work. That said, try adding this line to your kernel config file: options "MAXMEM=(XXX*1024)" In this case XXX==32. If you need help building a new kernel you should have a look at the FreeBSD Handbook. It is available on your machine if you installed the "doc" package, otherwise it's available at http://www.freebsd.org/ Good luck. On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Zheng Bokui wrote: :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 : : : :To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org :with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message : : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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