RAM in a Compaq 2500.

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (May 22), Wm. Allen Vonderschmidt said:
> 	I have a Compaq 2500 with 256MB of RAM installed.  I have
> removed the Win2K server installed and replaced it with FreeBSD
> 4.8-RELEASE.  According to sysctl I seem to only have 12MB of RAM
> (hw.physmem: 12099584).  Win2K was seeing all 256MB until it was
> replaced.  Any suggestions as to where to check for the disconnect?
> 	Thanks in advance.

Compaq's don't return the right values to the BIOS memory calls, so you
have to override the results.  Try adding this to /boot/loader.conf:

hw.physmem="256M"

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