Subject: Re: EISA problems under 1.6
To: Dr R.S. Brooks <R.S.Brooks@liverpool.ac.uk>
From: Christian Biere <christianbiere@gmx.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/24/2002 04:03:03
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"Dr R.S. Brooks" <R.S.Brooks@liverpool.ac.uk> wrote:

> I recently got a Compaq Proliant 1500 (2 x Pentium 133, 160MB, PCI/EISA
> MB) on eBay, and started installing NetBSD 1.6 on it.
> The 1.6 INSTALL kernel only sees 16MB of RAM, but I was able to install
> and boot the GENERIC kernel and the system seemed to be stable.  So I
> decided to build a kernel with REALEXTMEM=163452

man options(4) says:

options REALEXTMEM=integer
  Overrides the extended memory size passed in from the boot block. 
  (Value given in kilobytes.  Extended memory does not include the
   first megabyte.)

$ bc
159*1024
162816

Does this help?

Christian

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