Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:17:34 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Claus Guttesen <kometen@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64 List <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: amd64 does not see all 4 GB RAM on tyan GT24 Message-ID: <436FD27E.1050802@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <b41c75520511070731i15017f97i@mail.gmail.com> References: <b41c75520511070648v5d438bf7y@mail.gmail.com> <436F69DB.8060408@samsco.org> <b41c75520511070731i15017f97i@mail.gmail.com>
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Claus Guttesen wrote: >>>Just received a Tyan GT24 with a S2891 board. In the >>>bios-setup-utility the board has 4 GB RAM, but when FreeBSD 6.0 >>>release boot it only recognizes 3 GB. Dmesg: >> >>Please send the verbose boot output, specifically the lines that >>mention 'SMAP'. > > > Did a verbose boot but no lines mentioning SMAP. Verbose dmes is attached. > > regards > Claus Not sure why the SMAP lines didn't get printed out. Anyways, check your BIOS for a setting related to PCI-Express. Some motherboards allow you to reclaim the 256MB hole that PCI-Express consumes. That should help your problem at least a little bit. Scott
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