From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 31 20:12:25 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB6D616A417 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:12:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin@azuni.net) Received: from mail.azuni.net (ns0.azuni.net [217.25.25.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC43A13C45A for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:12:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin@azuni.net) Received: (qmail 34846 invoked by uid 1004); 31 Aug 2007 17:31:50 -0000 Received: from admin@azuni.net by mail.azuni.net by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.20 (clamscan: 0.65. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:RC:1(217.25.21.179):. Processed in 0.021235 secs); 31 Aug 2007 17:31:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?217.25.21.179?) (217.25.21.179) by ns0.azuni.net with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 31 Aug 2007 17:31:50 -0000 Message-ID: <46D85080.3020503@azuni.net> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:31:44 +0500 From: Rihad Organization: UniNet User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070607) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Intel SR1500AL doesn't see 4 GB X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:12:25 -0000 Hi, I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2 on Intel Server System SR1500AL with 4 gigs ram and CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5130 @ 2.00GHz (2002.99-MHz 686-class CPU). The install goes OK, but FreeBSD doesn't recognize that there's 4 gigs of ram unless I rebuild the kernel with PAE enabled; it sees only ~2.5 gb otherwise. And there's a suspicious white line emmited during boot: like "1.5 gigs above 4 were ignored". What's up with that? As I'm new to high-end hardware, am I using the right FreeBSD build of i386? Why can't it see 4 gigs without PAE? Thanks a lot.