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From: "Don O'Neil" <don@lizardhill.com>
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The BIOS sees it OK, but just not the OS. 

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From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Kris Kennaway
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 5:50 PM
To: Don O'Neil
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Subject: Re: 6.1 Stable default kernel memory

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 05:35:25PM -0800, Don O'Neil wrote:
> I have a new box that I just setup w/ 2 GB of RAM, and installed 
> FreeBSD 6.1 stable (snapshot), with the standard kernel and when I 
> look at the specs, it only shows 1GB of ram. Is there some sort of 
> kernel option that needs to be set to allow the full 2 GB to show?

Nope.  Check whether your BIOS sees it, maybe it's not seated properly.

Kris