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Old 03-17-2004, 10:44 AM   #1
freesco
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FreeBSD on Proliant 2500....


Hi all,


I have a Compaq Proliant 2500 with 384mb Ram but Freebsd don`t see more than 16Mb Ram...If u can help me with a boot command to map all memory because the install not working with only 16mb....I know in linux is something like that mem=384M ....but on *bsd I don`t know what is the command


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Old 08-21-2004, 09:36 AM   #2
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Not sure if this is still a problem, but see if this helps...

On Linux distros the following command at a lilo prompt works:

linux mem=384M

Once you've tweaked this command (note that the capital M is important!) to work with your installed amount of memory, you can integrate the mem= command into your /etc/lilo.conf file or a similar file -- to be honest, it's been so long since I did this I'm not clear on the details of integrating it into your normal boot procedure, but you can find this by searching at google on 'linux mem=' -- that's how I found it initially.

In FreeBSD, I don't think the process is all that different. I could be wrong. But that's my $0.02 on it.
 
Old 08-21-2004, 04:13 PM   #3
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By default FreeBSD uses it's own bootloader, not LILO. Most of the HOW-TOs for multi-booting FreeBSD are for GRUB. In fact, I don't think I even know anyone who uses LILO with FreeBSD.

freesco, what makes you think FreeBSD only sees 16MB? Do you have the dmesg output?
 
Old 08-21-2004, 04:35 PM   #4
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chort,

I can at least answer the question you asked freesco. All of the *nix distributions out there only see 16mb on the Compaq Proliant 2500 series servers, even if you have more. Therefore I'm not surprised in the slightest that FreeBSD follows suit, though I've not tried loading FreeBSD on mine. The only way I've found to get around this problem is the one I suggested to freesco using lilo's boot loader to tell the kernel to override it's probe and accept that more memory is there -- the largest risk being that if you tell the OS you have more memory than you do, very unpredictable results can occur. Here's a better explanation than I can provide:



http://www.netsys.com/suse-linux-e/2.../msg00532.html
 
Old 08-21-2004, 04:49 PM   #5
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Found it. here's your answer
 
  


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