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Explicitly setting RAM size
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew J Lynn)
Sat Oct 24 22:09:44 1998
To: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 22:09:35 EDT
From: Andrew J Lynn <alynn@MIT.EDU>
I'm running Athena 8.2 NetBSD on an old HP Vectra VL2 (early P60). It has
64mb of RAM (2 pairs of 16mb SIMMs in banks 0 and 1) but the BIOS only reports
16mb. This is a design limitation: it reports the extended memory and expects
that the rest will be handled as expanded.
Flash-upgrading the BIOS is not an option, as the machine's floppy controller
is shot and it won't take a secondary controller card.
Now, I know that in Linux you can set the amount of memory that is reported to
the kernel. My roommate did it to make Linux recognize on-board memory on a
Compaq. Not quite sure how off the top of my head, but I'd guess Lilo is
involved.
So, my question is, how does one do the same (or is there another solution to
the problem) in NetBSD?
-Andy
