Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

Jack Vogel jfvogel at gmail.com
Wed Sep 27 15:56:45 PDT 2006


On 9/27/06, Bill Moran <wmoran at collaborativefusion.com> wrote:
> mailinglists at 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 :)


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