From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 29 16:37:15 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A51A16A419 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:37:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3BCF13C44B for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:37:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id a2so1923446ugf for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:37:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=l+cqCDPiYzAz9MPq2VC5B4sZqXgsa7DfNQBzU0iKlg0=; b=UKYMenTN52sLMkO4VjbF+wefkMWvVwcr9C0nTgBfN6ILdEwrctmFKpBwm8nEZCAsjkUWiHacjqjD5kACTyvEThuXHLQ2YQLKNBZoo9fwWNspb1mLcK3npY11KtlaV6Cd406kTu649M5mrV2JySMV7bB49IdkShMt5Fi2B+hvD9I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=YI5LOcQVe+wsy5cbQMGxq6Tv5Gr/No/c68tNsgH41KAcysvEPBE7BjTI58ueEhOuzcbCADFYipVqGLKJdZrnLZn5j9YToApCjn0j72NHM3GGh0mtAv7lgUcsgvjIUaxNAOHmLc27DqbY8L21QKZy6OllMensOnEE1tOmzgZyn3o= Received: by 10.67.19.13 with SMTP id w13mr6561467ugi.1191083833164; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:37:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.86.2.1 with HTTP; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:37:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <499c70c0709290937r63c7118dn9474885b02fc5eb8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:37:13 +0300 From: "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" To: "Aryeh Friedman" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44r6khh4xh.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan> <8cb6106e0709290907j3babcbabt83c97712045b3d0e@mail.gmail.com> Cc: josh.carroll@gmail.com, Lowell Gilbert , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64) 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: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:37:15 -0000 On 9/29/07, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > 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 > > I already tried that and it barfed on a cast in adavsys.c (forget what > subdir) and no amount of hand editing corrected it (generated file?). > > That is why I was asking if a in place upgrade to amd64 native was possible I think you need to start from the scratch to use AMD64 arch. -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/