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Date:      Fri, 20 May 2005 12:43:55 -0600
From:      "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: more than 4GB in opteron board running i386 version of 5.3/5.4
Message-ID:  <5BE10643-C9EF-4E7F-BD8A-107EB7FD1EBB@shire.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050520184210.GA53630@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <846F9624-BC67-4058-A688-7359B7485EF3@shire.net> <20050520184210.GA53630@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On May 20, 2005, at 12:42 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 12:19:45PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net  
> LLC wrote:
>
>> Just want to confirm that FreeBSD 5.3/5.4 can access and use more
>> than 4GB of RAM in a Tyan Opteron MB (in this case an S2882) running
>> the i386 version of FreeBSD.
>>
>
> I don't know about the particular motherboard, but you need to enable
> PAE in your kernel.  Not all drivers work with PAE, so you'll need to
> do some research to check your hardware compatibility.

ok, thanks

That will get me going.  I don't have the 4gb now but am thinking  
about the years upgrades

best
Chad

>
> Kris
>

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