On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 14:02, Ron Kuris wrote:
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| to respond to myself, i tested 8gb of ram and the kernel
| (2.4.22-1.2129.nptlsmp) only reports 3.5gb.
Can you run '/sbin/grub' and then 'displaymem' and provide the output
here?
# /sbin/grub
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
GRUB version 0.93 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the
possible
completions of a device/filename.]
grub> displaymem
displaymem
EISA Memory BIOS Interface is present
Address Map BIOS Interface is present
Lower memory: 640K, Upper memory (to first chipset hole): 3072K
[Address Range Descriptor entries immediately follow (values are
64-bit)]
Usable RAM: Base Address: 0x0 X 4GB + 0x0,
Length: 0x0 X 4GB + 0xa0000 bytes
Reserved: Base Address: 0x0 X 4GB + 0xa0000,
Length: 0x0 X 4GB + 0x60000 bytes
Usable RAM: Base Address: 0x0 X 4GB + 0x100000,
Length: 0x0 X 4GB + 0x300000 bytes
grub>
care to interpret the meaning of this output for me? :)
thanks the help!
rob.