Re: FreeBSD 6.0, amd64, A8N-SLI and 4gb ram

2006-02-16 Thread Joseph Kerian
On 2/11/06, Robert Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 23:19:07 +1100, Robert Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I've been running FreeBSD 6.0 stable on an A8N-SLI Premium amd64 box with 2gb of ram for a few weeks now and it has been running well, ...[snip] Forgot to

Re: FreeBSD 6.0, amd64, A8N-SLI and 4gb ram

2006-02-16 Thread Robert Leftwich
Joseph Kerian wrote: I was planning on purchasing one of these boards in the near future, so I'm rather interested if you have solved this particular problem. In no particular order, my suggestions are: -The A8N-SLI's are extremely picky about the RAM you give them; have you double checked with

FreeBSD 6.0, amd64, A8N-SLI and 4gb ram

2006-02-11 Thread Robert Leftwich
I've been running FreeBSD 6.0 stable on an A8N-SLI Premium amd64 box with 2gb of ram for a few weeks now and it has been running well, but some of the analysis I run needs more ram, so I dropped in another 2 gb and started having all sorts of weird problems, such as DHCP failure and running very

Re: FreeBSD 6.0, amd64, A8N-SLI and 4gb ram

2006-02-11 Thread Robert Leftwich
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 23:19:07 +1100, Robert Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I've been running FreeBSD 6.0 stable on an A8N-SLI Premium amd64 box with 2gb of ram for a few weeks now and it has been running well, ...[snip] Forgot to mention, I'm running a kernel with 'options SMP' + GENERIC

Re: FreeBSD 6.0, amd64, A8N-SLI and 4gb ram

2006-02-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
off, then everything works, but FreeBSD can only see 3gb of ram. Some documentation suggested a custom kernel with 'options PAE' enabled would be required, but adding that generates an 'invalid option PEA' ^ is it typo now or

Re: FreeBSD 6.0, amd64, A8N-SLI and 4gb ram

2006-02-11 Thread Robert Leftwich
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 00:10:34 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: off, then everything works, but FreeBSD can only see 3gb of ram. Some documentation suggested a custom kernel with 'options PAE' enabled would be required, but adding that generates an 'invalid option PEA'