Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:07:49 -0400 From: "Josh Carroll" <josh.carroll@gmail.com> To: "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64) Message-ID: <8cb6106e0709290907j3babcbabt83c97712045b3d0e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <bef9a7920709290903q3ab2a7e3x22de338ecd6af49e@mail.gmail.com> References: <bef9a7920709262135l1daa6a45k3a2fc492f8711d42@mail.gmail.com> <44r6khh4xh.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan> <bef9a7920709290903q3ab2a7e3x22de338ecd6af49e@mail.gmail.com>
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On 9/29/07, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: > I have more then 4gb and was wondering why it didn't all show up.... > is there anyway to do a in place upgrade (I have a lot of user > data)... also someone should think about changing the naming on the > iso/cpu types since 20 years of industry experience (15 with FreeBSD) > and reading hardware.txt did not give a clue on this. Please don't top-post. Anyway, if you're not seeing all 4G, then you are most likely running an i386 kernel/release and not amd64. In order to use 4G on a 32-bit (i386) install, you need to include: options PAE In your kernel config. Note that memory access with PAE is much slower than if you were running a native amd64 kernel/install. Regards, Josh
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