more than 4GB in opteron board running i386 version of 5.3/5.4

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri May 20 11:42:11 PDT 2005


On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 12:19:45PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> Just want to confirm that FreeBSD 5.3/5.4 can access and use more  
> than 4GB of RAM in a Tyan Opteron MB (in this case an S2882) running  
> the i386 version of FreeBSD.

I don't know about the particular motherboard, but you need to enable
PAE in your kernel.  Not all drivers work with PAE, so you'll need to
do some research to check your hardware compatibility.

Kris
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