From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 10 19:29:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA07582 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 19:29:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA07573 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 19:29:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA01337; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 19:28:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 19:28:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Philippe Charnier cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 16MB -> 32MB and kernel won't boot! In-Reply-To: <199610102047.WAA09105@xp11.frmug.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Philippe Charnier wrote: > I just made and upgrade to 32MB (only for few days :-(): > I am asked to enter into the bios setup. > When booting I get: > FreeBSD 2.2-961004-SNAP #1: Wed Oct 9 22:10:58 MET DST 1996 > charnier@xp11.frmug.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/LENA.wd1 > Calibrating clock(s) relative to mc146818A clock... > i8254 clock: 1193128 Hz > CPU: i486DX (486-class CPU) > real memory = 33554432 (32768K bytes) > avail memory = 30429184 (29716K bytes) > I get a panic after the npx probe. What panic? > I knew about the 64MB limitation but not about the 16MB one, and my > question is: why does it require > options "MAXMEM=32768" > to work? It could be bad memory. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major