From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 27 22:56:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84AC116A40F for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:56:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5BA943D72 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:56:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id o67so442706pye for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:56:44 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=O10Lu4DjYG+B5RckYq+tubGZBfQuxAajhtwnaz57HOEpzzyqOrrUUnI4KOFBqVdPcUcjp+e++F+dur3tOm4lHQTTQnXG+Gign3f8+YRPculnd3m5DWxwP7NpUM2AuUi5M3Kmw9r1mfyBVPINSqmzftuYg5Y0PM3cD+c0FkNnl9A= Received: by 10.35.98.6 with SMTP id a6mr1782499pym; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:56:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.119.14 with HTTP; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:56:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2a41acea0609271556k4f6cf9a8le8b4de2cac490b5f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:56:43 -0700 From: "Jack Vogel" To: "Bill Moran" In-Reply-To: <20060927183506.e669fe4e.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <28535.207.47.2.114.1159392076.squirrel@207.47.2.114> <20060927183506.e669fe4e.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, mailinglists@net-virtual.com Subject: Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:56:45 -0000 On 9/27/06, Bill Moran wrote: > mailinglists@net-virtual.com wrote: > > > >I have no idea if the problem is related to PAE, but have you tried > > >booting an amd64 kernel on the system? > > > > This is an Intel Pentium 4 (D) system. Would the AMD64 kernel even work? > > I'm not an Intel sales rep, but I believe all the P4 systems have > 64 bit support. Unless it's specifically an Itanium (in which case > an i386 kernel wouldn't even boot) it's amd64. Be careful with those kinda claims Bill :) If a Pentium 4 is a few years old it well might not. However, the system Greg is talking about is new, and specifically advertises Em64T and Dual Core, so yes, its capable :) Jack PS Oh...I'm not a sales rep either, just a lowly software engineer :)