problems booting recompiled 5.4-kernel (Was: amd64 does not see all 4 GB RAM on tyan GT24)

[Sean McNeil]

On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 16:04 -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 November 2005 02:47 pm, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> > # jhb at freebsd.org / 2005-11-09 10:22:07 -0500:
> > > On Wednesday 09 November 2005 04:22 am, Claus Guttesen wrote:
> > > > I tried FreeBSD 6.0 a few days ago and I seem to recall that the above
> > > > mentioned line is not needed in FreeBSD 6.0, but my (own) memory is
> > > > probably corrupt :-)
> > >
> > > That's correct.
> >
> >     EAMBIGUOUS.
> >
> >     Which part is correct? "mentioned line is not needed in FreeBSD 6.0"
> >     or "my (own) memory is probably corrupt"?
> 
> You don't need atpic on 6.0.

Not true.  My Athlon 2x Gigabyte K8 Triton (GA-K8NSC-939) requires atpic
or it will not boot.  This is an nVidia nForce3-Pro250 board.