Ah, that's perfect! Thanks a lot!



----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Huang" <khym@bga.com>
To: "Jordan Shaw" <jshaw@thenewt.com>
Cc: <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: stupid newbie question..


> On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Jordan Shaw wrote:
> > 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 ask because some people see stuff like
>
> total memory = 127 MB
> avail memory = 115 MB
> using 1659 buffers containing 6636 KB of memory
>
> and think that NetBSD is only using 6 megs of their memory... If
> NetBSD really isn't seeing all of your memory (i.e., the "total
> memory" line says 15 megs), then you'll need to recompile your kernel
> with the following options:
>
> # The following options override the memory sizes passed in from the boot
> # block.  Use them *only* if the boot block is unable to determine the
correct
> # values.  Note that the BIOS may *correctly* report less than 640k of
base
> # memory if the extended BIOS data area is located at the top of base
memory
> # (as is the case on most recent systems).
> options        REALBASEMEM=639         # size of base memory (in KB)
> options        REALEXTMEM=15360        # size of extended memory (in KB)
>
> (changing the numbers as appropriate to your machine).
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