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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!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!enigma.staff.ichange.com!News From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@netsinc.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why doesn't bsd see all my memory??? Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 17:12:56 -0600 Organization: Nets Inc. Lines: 34 Message-ID: <334044F8.41C67EA6@netsinc.com> References: <33402460.41C67EA6@magicnet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: eskimo.industry.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE i386) To: King Kaos <kingkaos@magicnet.net> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38254 King Kaos wrote: > > HI. I have 112 MB of physical memory installed in my > 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 > memory. Why won't FreeBSD see all my memory. I have the memory > installed the way my motherboard manuel says. Please help. > Thanks. > > KING KAOS > > PS. PLease CC to my mailbox. Thanks. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Tundra" Tim Daneliuk System Architect, Nets Inc. email: tundra@netsinc.com Voice/FAX: 847.827.1706 Pager: 630.223.0266 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------