Yeah, it's an x86 pc.

The kernel doesn't say anything, it just detects 15 meg of memory on my
system, I catch it as it's booting up, and top claims roughly the same
thing. Sorry I don't have any printouts of what it's saying, i'm still
working on setting up ppp. :) (almost there! :) )

I've had the same problem with both Linux and FreeBSD, and both were
corrected by forcing the kernel to use X amount of memory. By your
statement, I assume there's a method to do this on Net, as well. :)

Thanks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Huang" <khym@bga.com>
To: "Jordan 'da5id' Shaw" <jshaw@thenewt.com>
Cc: <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: stupid newbie question..


> On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Jordan 'da5id' Shaw wrote:
> > Okay, I've got this memory problem. perhaps you've heard of it..
> > anyway, what is going on is that only 15 of my 256 meg of ram is
> > being detected.. I'm forced to have the memory hole turned on in my
> > bios for various reasons.
> >
> > I was wondering if there was any way to pass the full size of my
> > memory to the kernel? or will i be stuck with 15 meg?
>
> Since you mention the memory hole in your BIOS, I guess you're using a
> x86 PC? There's a way to force the memory size, but are you sure it's
> not recognizing your full memory? What's the kernel saying/doing that
> makes you think it only sees 15 of your 256 megs?
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