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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:3368 comp.os.386bsd.questions:12600 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!swrinde!gatech!news.byu.edu!cwis.isu.edu!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: > 16 megs of ram on FreeBSD 1.1.5 Date: 15 Aug 1994 23:00:43 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 22 Message-ID: <32os2r$8n5@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <32og7cINNhaj@soccer.cis.ohio-state.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <32og7cINNhaj@soccer.cis.ohio-state.edu> wood@cis.ohio-state.edu (joel braden wood) writes: ] A response to my question about accessing greater than 16 megs of memory ] using FreeBSD 1.1.5 advised me to recompile the kernel without the ] MAXMEM option. [ ... ] ] >> FreeBSD BOOT @ 0x90000: 639/15360k of memory [$ Revision: 1.14 $] ] use hd(1,a)/386bsd to boot sd0 when wd0 is also installed ] Boot: [[[wd(0,a)]/386bsd][-s][-a][-d] :- The memory size is returned from the CMOS, then probed down with the soft memory test. You need to fix your CMOS setup to tell it about the RAM. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.