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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Using > 16 Megs of memory Date: 20 Jun 1994 22:02:42 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 26 Message-ID: <2u53m2$rrm@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2tsrhdINNjiv@soccer.cis.ohio-state.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 Keywords: memory In article <2tsrhdINNjiv@soccer.cis.ohio-state.edu>, joel braden wood <wood@cis.ohio-state.edu> wrote: >I'm running FreeBSD 1.0.2 on a 486/66 mhz machine with an isa bus. >I just installed 24 megs of ram, but when the machine is loading I see >the message: > >/386bsd: FreeBSD 1.0.2 (GENERICAH) #0: Sun Nov 14 18:22:24 PST 1993 >/386bsd: root@gndrsh.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERICAH >/386bsd: CPU: i486DX (486-class CPU) >/386bsd: real mem = 16773120 >/386bsd: avail mem = 15200256 >/386bsd: using 332 buffers containing 2723840 bytes of memory >/386bsd: Probing for devices on the ISA bus: > >How can I get the kernel to recognize that I have 24 megs of ram??? Are you sure your motherboard recognizes all 24MB of memory? FreeBSD 1.0 should recognize all of the memory you throw at it. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.