From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 20 12:06:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2E4616A4CE for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:06:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web14104.mail.yahoo.com (web14104.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D23543D55 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:06:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cguttesen@yahoo.dk) Message-ID: <20041020120638.33540.qmail@web14104.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [194.248.174.58] by web14104.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:06:38 CEST Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:06:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Claus Guttesen To: Ganbold In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20041020195426.02b26030@202.179.0.80> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 problem on IBM @server 325 type 8835 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:06:40 -0000 I assume that you managed to install the amd64-port and booted rebooted. > >It may not probe the amount of RAM correctly. You > can > >try adding hw.physmem=8G to /boot/loader.conf. |----------------| Add the line hw.physmem=8G to the above mentioned file. > > You mean from boot prompt? I tried to boot both AMD > and x86 installation > CD. FreeBSD 5.3-RC1-x86 can't recognize 8GB RAM. Could you supply a dmesg, type dmesg at the console. Claus