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From: diamond@jit345.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ultrix 4.0's Perception of Memory Size
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.042200.3392@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
Date: 22 Apr 91 04:22:00 GMT
References: <11029@bunny.GTE.COM>
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In article <11029@bunny.GTE.COM> drobbins@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@tkov50.enet.dec.com
If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.