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

Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC chad at shire.net
Fri May 20 11:43:57 PDT 2005


On May 20, 2005, at 12:42 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> 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.

ok, thanks

That will get me going.  I don't have the 4gb now but am thinking  
about the years upgrades

best
Chad

>
> Kris
>

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