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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!usenet From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Max. Addressable Physical Memory Date: 6 Oct 1996 22:47:16 GMT Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <539ctk$im@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <538m2p$g8h@Mercury.mcs.com> Reply-To: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: anorak.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 In article <538m2p$g8h@mercury.mcs.com>, tundra@MCS.COM (Tim Daneliuk) writes: > My FreeBSD 2.1.5 systems runs on a Gateway 90Mhz Pentium motherboard. > I recently upgraded from 16MB to 80MB (2-32M and 2-8M SIMMS). The > POST sees all 80MB, but FreeBSD sees only the first 64MB. Is there > some inherent FreeBSD limitation here or is this a problem 'cause I > mixed SIMM sizes? Nope, there's an inherent CMOS limitation where it can only report up to 64Mb. Put options MAXMEM=81920 in your kernel config file and rebuild. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....