Subject: Re: Not detecting all the memory in my machine
To: Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/24/2000 12:49:28
Johnny C. Lam writes:
> I've a Compaq Prosignia 300 Pentium 150MHz with 80MB of RAM, but only
> 16MB of it are detected by NetBSD/i386. My kernel was compiled from
> 20000522 sources. Novell NetWare 4.1 detected all the memory. Any
> ideas as to why this is?
Do you have the latest bootblock installed? Is this an EISA machine
by any chance? It seems to me that a Dell EISA machine here didn't
report the correct amount of RAM either. I believe this was fixed by
the addition of the 'getextmemx' function in the bootblocks. (way back)
Does a 1.4.2 boot/install floppy recognize all of the RAM? Worst case
you'll just have to hard code the information via the "REALEXTMEM" option
in the kernel config file.
-Andrew
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