On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 11:27:50AM -0700, Jordan Shaw wrote:
> 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. :)

yes, but you have to rebuild a kernel, I think.
type 'man options' and look for REALBASEMEM and REALEXTMEM

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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