Dual Opterons don't see all memory

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,


Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On September 26, 2007 9:06:57 PM -0700 Eric Osterweil 
> <eoster at CS.UCLA.EDU> wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 26, 2007, at 8:57 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote:
>>
>>> Eric Osterweil wrote:
>>>
>>>> make use of it's 6GB of memory, and FreeBSD can only see about 4GB
>>>> of it.
>>>> Can anyone help me figure out how to make use of the missing GB?
>>>> FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007
>>>
>>> this looks like a 32 bit binary to me.
>>>
>>> You either need a 64 bit binary or you need to enable PAE.
>>>
>>> Just build a custom kernel for 64 bits.
>>>
>>
>> Ahh... To do this, do I just specify the CPUTYPE in the /etc/make.conf
>> as:
>> CPUTYPE=amd64
>> ?
>>
> No.  Add options SMP to GENERIC or use the SMP conf file that's already 
> there (and includes GENERIC).  Then recompile the kernel per the handbook.
> 
he still has to set the CPU type also in this config file to amd64.

Erich