ISC UNIX and >16MB

Conor P. Cahill cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Wed Nov 14 10:00:06 AEST 1990


We are putting together a system with 32 MB of ram and have run into
a problem getting ISC UNIX to recognize the stuff > 16MB.

The machine has an EISA bus, so there *should* be no problems with DMA stuff. 
The EISA bios recognizes the 32MB and checks it successfully.  The ISC 2.2
boot finds only 16MB.

The interesting part is that we can make 386/ix 2.0.2 recognize the 
extra memory by changing the settings in /etc/default/boot, but the ISC
UNIX product no longer has this file (and a strings of /etc/*boot* and 
/etc/initprog/* shows that this file is no longer accessed by the
boot software).  We have had no problems running 2.0.2 in this 
configuration, so we *should* be able to expect the same for 2.2.

So the question is:

	Is there a way that we can we get 2.2 to recognize the memory > 16MB
	that 2.0.2 seems to have no problems with?

Any and all help via post or email is appreciated.

If I do get a solution, I will post it.
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Conor P. Cahill            (703)430-9247        Virtual Technologies, Inc.,
uunet!virtech!cpcahil                           46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160
                                                Sterling, VA 22170 



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