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From: z056716@uprc.com (LaCoursiere J. D. (Jeff))
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: > 16 megs of ram on FreeBSD 1.1.5
Date: 18 Aug 1994 19:48:37 GMT
Organization: Union Pacific Resources Corp.
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References: <32og7cINNhaj@soccer.cis.ohio-state.edu>
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In article 32og7cINNhaj@soccer.cis.ohio-state.edu, wood@cis.ohio-state.edu (joel braden wood) writes:
>A response to my question about accessing greater than 16 megs of memory
>using FreeBSD 1.1.5 advised me to recompile the kernel without the
>MAXMEM option.
>
>I recompiled the kernel, and nowhere in the configuration file was the
>MAXMEM variable... So I'm assuming that it isn't in the compile. But
>FreeBSD still only recognizes 16 out of my 24 megs. At bootup I get the
>following message: (I think this is even before it looks at the kernel)
>
ISA architectures still cannot access > 16M with FreeBSD.
j
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