From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 10 08:50:10 2008 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 3C4B4106566B for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:50:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from mailout.zetnet.co.uk (mailout.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.47.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E3CC8FC13 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:50:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from irwell.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.47.48] helo=zetnet.co.uk) by mailout.zetnet.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JYdhs-0003FN-E2; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:50:04 +0000 Received: from melon.esperance-linux.co.uk (54-144.adsl.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.54.144]) by zetnet.co.uk (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-9) with ESMTP id m2A8VnPL029555; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:31:49 GMT Received: by melon.esperance-linux.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 68133FCA4B0; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:31:43 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:31:43 +0000 From: Frank Shute To: Jeremy Johnston Message-ID: <20080310083143.GB622@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <47D45E21.5010709@smart-serv.net> <20080310084628.T1013@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <47D4E841.6030700@smart-serv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47D4E841.6030700@smart-serv.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Face: *}~{PHnDTzvXPe'wl_-f%!@+r5; VLhb':*DsX%wEOPg\fDrXWQJf|2\,92"DdS%63t*BHDyQ|OWo@Gfjcd72eaN!4%NE{0]p)ihQ1MyFNtWL X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE i386 X-Organisation: 'Esperance Linux' X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (zetnet.co.uk [194.247.46.1]); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:31:50 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: K8N-VM CSM not seeing over 2240MB RAM X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:50:10 -0000 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