Re: Memory defined at boot time incorrect

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 09:26:13AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
> 
> > I have a new-ish motherboard with an amd64 capable CPU, however I'm
> > using i386 on it because this system has existed since long before
> > amd64 was a thing.
> 
> Not that you asked how to do this, but changing a system from i386 to
> amd64 in place is doable, assuming you have physical console access.  I
> did this on one system without too much trouble, basically:

You can also opt to only switch the kernel to amd64 and leave everything
else in place (you may have to switch dev/MAKEDEV and run "MAKEDEV all").

Martin