Hi folks-
First post! (hurrah!)
Well, I just put in 5gb of Ram in a database server, (and during POST, my server recognizes that) but I am having trouble getting RedHat 2.1 AS to recongnize the ram.
I found out that I had to use the enterprise kernel so I instaleld that "kernel-enterprise-2.4.9-e.34.i686.rpm" via rpm -ivh and rebooted and selected the enterprise kernel upon the GRUB screen.
Here is how my grub.conf looks like..
Code:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/cciss/c0d0p3
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/cciss/c0d0
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.9-e.34enterprise)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.9-e.34enterprise ro root=/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 mem=5120M
initrd /initrd-2.4.9-e.34enterprise.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.9-34enterprise)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.9-34enterprise ro root=/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 mem=5120M
title Red Hat Linux Advanced Server (2.4.9-e.34smp)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.9-e.34smp ro root=/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 mem=5120M
initrd /initrd-2.4.9-e.34smp.img
title Red Hat Linux Advanced Server-up (2.4.9-e.34)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.9-e.34 ro root=/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 mem=5120M
initrd /initrd-2.4.9-e.34.img
Right now, when I do a free -m I only get less than 4gb of ram showing..
Code:
[root@dhq-db1 root]# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3889 2623 1265 205 77 1985
-/+ buffers/cache: 560 3328
Swap: 2047 0 2047
[root@dhq-db1 root]#
Any reason why I can't see the last gigabyte of ram? I could understand that about 200mb is allocated to PCI devices and what not, but whats gives?
Thanks
Wilson