Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:52:30 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo.raburu@wananchi.com> To: Beech Rintoul <beech@mangohealth.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-4.11 and 4GB RAM Message-ID: <20060417075230.GG48793@ns2.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <200604161240.45303.beech@mangohealth.org> References: <20060416191820.GA7226@ns2.wananchi.com> <200604161240.45303.beech@mangohealth.org>
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* On 16/04/06 12:40 -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote:
| On Sunday 16 April 2006 11:18, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
| > On my brand new Dell PowerEdge, now running FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE under
| > test, there is 4GB RAM, but looking at dmesg.boot, this is what shows:
| >
| > real memory 268173312 (261888K bytes)
| > available memory 255455235 (249468K bytes)
| >
| > This is 2GB RAM only showing, with kernel.GENERIC.
| >
| > There must be something I need to compile in the kernel so as to access
| > more than 2GB RAM.
| >
| > I have compiled "options PAE" in the kernel but it still does not see
| > the full 4GB RAM.
|
| 4.11 will soon be completely unsupported, besides putting 4.11 on a new server
| is akin to putting a flathead-6 engine in a Ferrari. You should
| upgrade/reinstall 6-pr and go from there. You will have far fewer problems.
If it were not that I really respect your name.... ;)
Anyway, I know about the fact that 4.11 is not gonna be supported. All
my other systems are running 5.5-PRE and 6.1-PRE and you can see there
is really no problem with updating all those even to -CURRENT... which
I am not afraid to do.
Simple question: How do I make 4.11 see the 4GB RAM?
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Odhiambo Washington
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