Rob Sanchez wrote:

> hello,
> 
> this machine has 320 megs of RAM but 1.6ZE (11/02 snapshot from 
> ftp://releng.netbsd.org) only recognizes 64 MB or so:
> 
> *****************
> NetBSD 1.6ZE (GENERIC_DIAGNOSTIC) #0: Mon Nov  3 09:13:57 UTC 2003
> autobuild@tgm.netbsd.org:/autobuild/HEAD/i386/OBJ/autobuild/HEAD/src/sys/arch 
> 
> /i386/compile/GENERIC_DIAGNOSTIC
> total memory = 66108 KB
> avail memory = 53928 KB
> using 851 buffers containing 3404 KB of memory
> BIOS32 rev. 0 found at 0xfb060
> *****************
> 
> the bootstrap behaves the same way...
> 
>  >> NetBSD/i386 BIOS, Revision 3.1
>  >> (autobuild@tgm.netbsd.org, Mon Nov  3 07:44:09 UTC 2003)
>  >> Memory: 639/65472 k
> 
> on the same machine, the 1.6.1 branch install boot disk does recognize 
> all of the memory and looks like this:
> 
>  >> NetBSD/i386 BIOS, Revision 2.13
>  >> (autobuild@tgm.daemon.org, Tue Apr  8 11:27:33 UTC 2003)
>  >> Memory: 639/326592 k
> 
> i noticed PR 21037 from back in April, but I was surprised that no one 
> else saw this behavior.  anyone else see this since then?  what source 
> files differentiate the bootstrap rev 3.1 from 2.13?
> 
> thanks for your help.
> 
> Rob Sanchez
> sanchero@gvsu.edu

Ok, well I'm working around this whole problem by using the 1.6.1 boot 
floppy and at the prompt booting from the hard disk -

I tried checking out older versions of the files in question 
(src/sys/arch/i386/stand/boot/*) but couldn't get a successful build.  Will 
keep trying...

thanks anyway -

Rob