FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 problem on IBM @server 325 type 8835

Ganbold ganbold at micom.mng.net
Wed Oct 20 05:22:19 PDT 2004


I'm doing fresh installation. I tried to set hw.physmem=8G in loader prompt,
but system is behaving same, crashes after trying to copy files.
It recognizes 8GB RAM correctly.


Ganbold


At 09:06 PM 10/20/2004, you wrote:
>I assume that you managed to install the amd64-port
>and booted rebooted.
>
> > >It may not probe the amount of RAM correctly. You
> > can
> > >try adding hw.physmem=8G to /boot/loader.conf.
>                                |----------------|
>
>Add the line hw.physmem=8G to the above mentioned
>file.
>
> >
> > You mean from boot prompt? I tried to boot both AMD
> > and x86 installation
> > CD. FreeBSD 5.3-RC1-x86 can't recognize 8GB RAM.
>
>Could you supply a dmesg, type dmesg at the console.
>
>Claus
>
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