Re: freebsd 6.1 floppy installation problem - boot loader finds only 16MB, but I have 256 MB - and it hangs
Hi. At Sat, 23 Sep 2006 21:49:20 +0200, Vo?ten?k Vladim?r wrote: 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 Choose 6. Escape to loader prompt from the boot menu and enter the two lines to the loader(8) prompt: set hw.physmem=256M boot See loader(8) for details. It's the same thing that you specify MAXMEM=256M to your kernel configulation file. --- Watanabe Kazuhiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd 6.1 floppy installation problem - boot loader finds only 16MB, but I have 256 MB - and it hangs
--- Vo¹tenák Vladimír [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 Vo¹tenák make sure you don't have OS/2 compatability mode in your BIOS turned on. That will limit a system to 16 megs of RAM. I haven't played with an HP Netserver but I have several Kayaks that run things fine with about the same aged bios. -brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
