From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 16 20:40:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3BFE16A406 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 20:40:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@mangohealth.org) Received: from pinnacle.akherb.com (94-37-237-24.gci.net [24.237.37.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5555343D45 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 20:40:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beech@mangohealth.org) Received: by pinnacle.akherb.com (Postfix, from userid 1007) id 1262B5D01; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:40:48 -0800 (AKDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on pinnacle.akherb.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=4.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=3.1.1 Received: from [192.168.2.160] (209-124-141-064.ip.arctic.net [209.124.141.64]) by pinnacle.akherb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E0695C9B; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:40:47 -0800 (AKDT) From: Beech Rintoul Organization: Mangohealth To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:40:33 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060416191820.GA7226@ns2.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <20060416191820.GA7226@ns2.wananchi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2246871.5PeRPuPLhX"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200604161240.45303.beech@mangohealth.org> Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD-4.11 and 4GB RAM X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 20:40:49 -0000 --nextPart2246871.5PeRPuPLhX Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 16 April 2006 11:18, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On my brand new Dell PowerEdge, now running FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE under > test, there is 4GB RAM, but looking at dmesg.boot, this is what shows: > > real memory 268173312 (261888K bytes) > available memory 255455235 (249468K bytes) > > This is 2GB RAM only showing, with kernel.GENERIC. > > There must be something I need to compile in the kernel so as to access > more than 2GB RAM. > > I have compiled "options PAE" in the kernel but it still does not see > the full 4GB RAM. 4.11 will soon be completely unsupported, besides putting 4.11 on a new ser= ver=20 is akin to putting a flathead-6 engine in a Ferrari. You should=20 upgrade/reinstall 6-pr and go from there. You will have far fewer problems. Just my $.02 Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@mangohealth.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Mangohealth \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - XanGo - http://www.mangohealth.org =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart2246871.5PeRPuPLhX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEQqvN2TFLCHYGSF0RAuOoAJ9mhsghmQqRT7p7WakqZbAC7n9dKwCeIpmd 5vJ+IRxkNxr7JPduvoJ8zdE= =Lgft -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2246871.5PeRPuPLhX--