[KLUG Members] Re: debian only showing half my ram?

[Richard Harding]

I spent somewhere around 6 hours compiling a new kernel with the 
kernel-source package for 2.6.3. I ended up not being able to boot. I 
did some googling and the answers to the problem ran the gamut and it 
seemed like I might not have had IDE support loaded not as a module but 
into the kernel. I was not sure and decided I did not want to compile a 
new kernel so I just got the new kernel-image for 2.4.25-686-smp and it 
worked great. Took a couple of minutes to download and upon bootting 
into it I had both cpus and all 2gig of ram now.

Thanks for the help. I just wanted to move along as I have other things 
I want to spend my time with on this test machine at the moment rather 
than the kernel. I just wanted to be using all my ram and both cpus.

This is the result of grep /boot for config- now.  It seems the kernel 
that loaded from the Debian beta 3 disk was a bare 386 kernel. Maybe if 
you load other options on install you get the smp kernel with highmem 
support. I just did a straight install.
rackem:~# ls /boot | grep config-
config-2.4.25-1-386
config-2.4.25-1-686-smp

Rick

somercet@core.com wrote:

>On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 07:41:22PM -0400, Richard Harding was only escaped
>   alone to tell thee:
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>>I installed debian with the beta 3 installer today. The server is a
>>dual p3 with 2gig of ram. Only half of that is showing however.
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>All versions of Debian have SMP-enabled kernels available. I would
>imagine that they have HIGHMEM enabled as well. (If not, you may have to
>boot an SMP kernel with the mem= param.)
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>It is dead easy to check. grep(1) the config-(version) file in /boot, as
>with all Debian kernels.
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