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#! rnews 2361 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!hermes.sovam.com!sovam!Gamma.RU!srcc!not-for-mail From: "Eugene Radchenko" <genie@qsar.chem.msu.su> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why doesn't bsd see all my memory??? Date: 1 Apr 1997 15:08:30 GMT Organization: Dept. of Chemistry, Moscow State University Lines: 35 Message-ID: <01bc3eae$8e6a6420$6330fa9e@org-qsar2.chem.msu.su> References: <33402460.41C67EA6@magicnet.net> <334044F8.41C67EA6@netsinc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: org.chem.msu.su Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1160 Cache-Post-Path: org.chem.msu.su!unknown@org-qsar2.chem.msu.su Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38198 Tim Daneliuk <tundra@netsinc.com> wrote in article <334044F8.41C67EA6@netsinc.com>... > King Kaos wrote: > > system. When I start my computer, the BIOS counts 114 KBs. Then > > when FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE starts it only finds 66 KBs of real [...] > > You must inform the kernel configuration of the amount of memory > actually present in the machine if there is more than 64 Meg. > > Look in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf for your GENERIC kernel config file > (or whatever one you are using) and make sure there is a line in it > similar to: > > options "MAXMEM=81920" #Max physical memory in system > > Naturally, you need to set MAXMEM to whatever makes sense on your > machine. > Then re-config and build/install a kernel as usual and reboot. AFAIU, the cause is that CMOS has space for 64MB memory only. I always wondered why can't the kernel scan the available memory itself (like POST routine in BIOS) and store it in some more sensibly-sized datatype? Surely it can't take longer than SCSI bus recalibration? CU Genie --- ######################################################### Eugene V. Radchenko Research associate, Computer Chemistry E-mail: genie@qsar.chem.msu.su Fax: +7-(095)939-0290 =================================================== Once installed, CD-ROM can be connected to Internet via your computer's modem ---- TV Commercial, Intel Corp. Russia