Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:31:43 +0000 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: Jeremy Johnston <jeremy@smart-serv.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: K8N-VM CSM not seeing over 2240MB RAM Message-ID: <20080310083143.GB622@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <47D4E841.6030700@smart-serv.net> References: <47D45E21.5010709@smart-serv.net> <20080310084628.T1013@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <47D4E841.6030700@smart-serv.net>
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On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 01:50:25AM -0600, Jeremy Johnston wrote: > > Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >use PAE or (even better) 64-bit kernel > > > > > >On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Jeremy Johnston wrote: > > > >>I have been trying to trouble shoot a problem where my 32bit kernel will > >>not see past 2240MB of RAM where as the BIOS reports it as 3GB. Windows > >>on the same machine sees all 3GB. > >> > >>My dmesg can be found at http://www.smart-serv.net/~jeremy/dmesg.txt > >> > >>Any suggestions on what could be the cause of this would be greatly > >>appreciated. > >> > > > > I attempted PAE but it panics with some modules I require. And I would > gladly go to 64bit if I didnt need the nvidia drivers. > But there is no reason the kernel should see less then 3GB when x86 can > handle up to 4. Bit confused on this. > You could try putting: hw.physmem="2951045120" in /boot/loader.conf -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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