[KLUG Members] Not the sharpest tack in the box.

[Dirk H Bartley]

Adam Williams wrote:
> 
> >So I found out I'm not the sharpest tack in the box on Tuesday.  An smp
> >machine has been running with a non-smp kernel for about a year.  OK, I
> >can fix this, install the smp rpm from the 7.0 cd I have and edit the
> >lilo.conf file on this RH7.0 box and ...
> 
> Ha! Oh my..... Heeeehheeee....
> 
> >This machine has a raid card that uses the ips.o kernel module.  Will I
> >have to create another initrd.img file with the ips.o module compiled
> >for smp??
> 
> Yes! And then you have to reboot!
> 
> >If so can someone point me in the right direction?
> 
> mkinitrd! (MaKe INITial Ram Disk)
> 
> It should turn out to be almost the same size as your current
> initrd.img.
> 
> >Ok, you can stop laughing now.
> 
> Not Yet! Ha! My sides hurt.
> 

I think I can hear you from here.  One more issue.  I put in a 1GIG stick of
ram.  The bios recognizes it just fine.  But the dmesg tells me I'm not making
use of it.

BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0009d000 @ 00000000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 5fefce00 @ 00100000 (usable)
Warning only 896MB will be used.

896 Arrgghh?#(*&!!!  This should really be 1.5G.  Do I need to pass the kernel
an argument telling it to use the whole memory?

Dirk