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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!Frankfurt.Germany.EU.net!Stuttgart.Germany.EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: I have 64MB but only see 12MB Date: 31 Aug 1996 16:07:34 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <509o06$7uq@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3227247F.41C67EA6@baynetworks.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Robert Withrow <bwithrow@baynetworks.com> wrote: > This seems different from the FAQ. I have a P6_200 > with 64MB of memory (which the bios sees) but FreeBSD > only sees 12MB. This is 2.1.5. Dmesg excerpts follow: > Features=0xf9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,<b11>,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV> > real memory = 12582912 (12288K bytes) > avail memory = 10743808 (10492K bytes) Seems your BIOS writes the wrong value into the CMOS. Anyway, the fix is identical to the one described for > 64 MB machines. -- 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. ;-)