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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: Extended memory in 2.2.1
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970327102543.00a9ddc0@agisgate.agis.net> from Mark E Larson at "Mar 27, 97 10:25:44 am"
To: markl@agis.net (Mark E Larson)
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 18:06:31 -0500 (EST)
Cc: dg@root.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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> 
> Howdy!
> 
> This is my line in the kernel:
> 
> options	"MAXMEM=393216"
> 
> After compile, on boot up I recieve this message:
> 
> real memory = 402653184 (393216K bytes)
> kmem_suballoc: bad status return of 3
> panic: kmem_suballoc
> Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press any key to reboot
> 
> 
> 
> At 05:33 PM 3/26/97 -0800, David Greenman wrote:
> >>Howdy!
> >>
> >>Ok.  I tried adding this line in the 2.2.1 kernel
> >>
> >>options	"maxmem=1024*384"
> >>
> >>To reconize 384M of RAM.   This worked under 2.1.5, but in 2.2.1 upon boot
> >>up the kernel says "memory bounce  rebooting in 15 secs"
> >
> >   Please provide the EXACT kernel message. I can't help you without that.
> >I see that people have already pointed out that the above should be:
> >
> >options		"MAXMEM=393216"
> >

Just for fun, remove the bounce buffer support from the kernel config file.
I would be suprised if you need bounce buffers on a system that has
384MB!!!  (Using AHA1542's??? :-)).

John