Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-28 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 16:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I am having a very hard time getting an Intel se7230NH1-E motherboard with > 6gb of memory to work. I keep getting two messages about "Too many holes > in the physical address space, giving up". > > I'm not sure what the

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread Jack Vogel
On 9/27/06, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I have no idea if the problem is related to PAE, but have you tried > >booting an amd64 kernel on the system? > > This is an Intel Pentium 4 (D) system. Would the AMD64 kernel even work? I'm not an Intel sales rep, b

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread Jack Vogel
On 9/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Absolutely, its an architecture not a brand name, should call it x86_64 > as often done in Linux. If you run only a 32bit kernel on that system of > yours you're cheating yourself out of performance anyway. > > slurp down an iso and boot

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I have no idea if the problem is related to PAE, but have you tried > >booting an amd64 kernel on the system? > > This is an Intel Pentium 4 (D) system. Would the AMD64 kernel even work? I'm not an Intel sales rep, but I believe all the P4 systems have 64 bit support

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread mailinglists
> Absolutely, its an architecture not a brand name, should call it x86_64 > as often done in Linux. If you run only a 32bit kernel on that system of > yours you're cheating yourself out of performance anyway. > > slurp down an iso and boot that before you go pulling dimms and such :) > > Jack > Ok

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:21:16PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I have no idea if the problem is related to PAE, but have you tried > >booting an amd64 kernel on the system? > > This is an Intel Pentium 4 (D) system. Would the AMD64 kernel even work? Maybe. The later Pentium 4 processors

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread Jack Vogel
Absolutely, its an architecture not a brand name, should call it x86_64 as often done in Linux. If you run only a 32bit kernel on that system of yours you're cheating yourself out of performance anyway. slurp down an iso and boot that before you go pulling dimms and such :) Jack On 9/27/06, [EM

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread mailinglists
>I have no idea if the problem is related to PAE, but have you tried >booting an amd64 kernel on the system? This is an Intel Pentium 4 (D) system. Would the AMD64 kernel even work? - Greg ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread mailinglists
>Based on what I understand of Intel x86 architecture, to address more >than 4GB of memory space, you have to use Intel's PAE feature. I >don't think the FreeBSD kernels are built with PAE enabled. This >might explain why the kernel states there's too many memory holes. > >I'd recommend either 1)

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 01:58:59PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am having a very hard time getting an Intel se7230NH1-E motherboard with > > 6gb of memory to work. I keep getting two messages about "Too many holes > > in the physical

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 01:58:59PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am having a very hard time getting an Intel se7230NH1-E motherboard with > 6gb of memory to work. I keep getting two messages about "Too many holes > in the physical address space, giving up". > > I'm not sure what the BIOS is