freebsd 6.1 floppy installation problem - boot loader finds
only 16MB, but I have 256 MB - and it hangs
Voštenák Vladimír
vohtenbk at stonline.sk
Sat Sep 23 12:40:58 PDT 2006
Hi
I have an old HP NETSERVER PRO 2xpentium pro, 256 MB ram,
and I tried to install the actual FREEBSD 6.1 there. I made 3
floppies: boot, kernel1 and kernel2. When it starts booting from
the boot floppy, the loader show I only have 16 MB of RAM
(instead 256MB I have there). Then it asks for kernel1 and 2
disk, and boot disk again. It gives me also the entry FREEBSD
display with countdown - to choose boot type - default, no
acpi, secure etc. I tried it all, but it alwaysl hangs after about 5
second after any choice. So I must just reboot. I think it is just
because the lack of RAM, because, I think it requirets at least 24
MB of RAM.
I have found something about this on the web, that it is
necessary options "MAXMEM=n" to use all the RAM, because old
BIOSes shows just first 16 MB or so, but I am just doing the
installation. So how can I modify the kernel on the floppies to
use such option during the installation from floppies? Or should I
install from other media???Please can you help me with
this??????How can I make the installation boot floppy see all the
RAM I have?
Thank you very much for your reply.
Greetings
Vladimír Voštenák
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