Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 18:06:31 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: markl@agis.net (Mark E Larson) Cc: dg@root.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extended memory in 2.2.1 Message-ID: <199703272306.SAA13733@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970327102543.00a9ddc0@agisgate.agis.net> from Mark E Larson at "Mar 27, 97 10:25:44 am"
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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
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