Ultrix 4.0's Perception of Memory Size

Norman Diamond diamond at jit345.swstokyo.dec.com
Mon Apr 22 14:22:00 AEST 1991


In article <11029 at bunny.GTE.COM> drobbins at gte.com writes:
>I am running Ultrix 4.0 on a DECStation 3100 with 24MB of memory.  The PROM
>code recognizes and tests 24MB of memory, but when Ultrix is booting up it
>insists that there is only 12MB of memory.  Why?  /vmunix is configured to
>expect 24MB ("physmem 24" in the config file).

Sounds like it might be something dumb (nothing personal; I've made the
same dumb mistake before) like forgetting to copy the recompiled vmunix
executable to /vmunix before rebooting.....
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Norman Diamond       diamond at tkov50.enet.dec.com
If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.



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