amd64 does not see all 4 GB RAM on tyan GT24
Norberto Meijome
freebsd at meijome.net
Tue Nov 8 02:51:37 PST 2005
Scott Long wrote:
> 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.
For what is worth, boot -v DOES show the SMAP info, but dmesg doesn't
shoow them. I'll try to get this info somehow, as i don't have a
s/console on this box.
thanks,
Beto
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