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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gumby!andrews-cc!gillham From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD, 16 to 32MB unrecognized on EISA machine Date: 4 Sep 1994 19:44:45 GMT Organization: Andrews University Lines: 20 Message-ID: <34d83d$3tf@orion.cc.andrews.edu> References: <348au2$bd@csnews.cs.colorado.edu> <348efq$l1v@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <CvLMqD.7Is@luva.stgt.sub.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu In article <CvLMqD.7Is@luva.stgt.sub.org> migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org (Michael Giegerich) writes: > >Me too. With a Dell 425TE - It's their Phoenix BIOS, it stores >only 15 MB of extended memory. >One Dell employee told me they are doing this for compatibility >reasons... > Hmm, I don't understand this. The boot program shows the correct amount of extended memory, the kernel just doesn't get the right value. So the boot code is getting it from somewhere! (where the bios is hiding it I guess) I guess I'll have to go peeking into memory locations.. :-) -Andrew -- #!/bin/sh - ============================================== echo "Andrew Gillham gillham@andrews.edu" echo "Winix Hacker" #=========================================================