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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Q] Can I use 128MB of memory with 2.1.0-RELEASE?
Date: 15 Apr 1996 19:47:25 GMT
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"Jun, Gyu-Chang" <geoid@panic.ktnet.co.kr> writes:

>  I have just installed FreeBSD 2.1.0 release on my new system
>  which has Pentium 150 processor with 128MB memory.
>
>  But, it seems to me that GENERIC kernel can not use the whole 
>  memory. It detects the memory size as 64MB!!!

That's the maximal value that fits in the CMOS.

Use

	options		"MAXMEM='(128*1024)'"

in your config file.

Keep the old kernel around, this one won't boot if you reduce your RAM
size some day!

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)