FreeBSD-4.11 and 4GB RAM

[Derek Ragona]

Verify your BIOS settings that the 4 GB of RAM is configured as all 4 GB 
useable by the system.

         -Derek


At 02:18 PM 4/16/2006, 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.
>
>
>-Wash
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