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Originally Posted by BW-userx
32bit does not have enough bits to run at 64bit, so you cannot run 64bit on 32bit, but a 64bit can run 32bit.
64 - 32 = 32;
32 - 64 = -32;
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The CPU is 64bit. Some MacBooks have 64bit cpu and 32bit EFI. Specs say my MacBook has 64bit CPU and 64bit EFI
Quote:
Originally Posted by BW-userx
why it is not picking up your 4*GB RAM, a few commands to see what it sees.
Code:
cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal
free | awk 'FNR==2{print $2}'
top // just look at it where it says total.
copy paste it back, it might be a math problem in conversion, or not. |
$ cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal
MemTotal: 3042120 kB
$ free | awk 'FNR==2{print $2}'
3042120
$ top //
top: unknown option '/'
$ top
top - 10:43:53 up 11 min, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.54, 0.48
Tasks: 172 total, 2 running, 130 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 2.8 us, 0.7 sy, 0.0 ni, 96.5 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem : 3042120 total, 255852 free, 1329752 used, 1456516 buff/cache
KiB Swap: 3905532 total, 3905532 free, 0 used. 1385692 avail Mem
I booted memtest it indicates 4GB RAM installed
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Originally Posted by BW-userx
The partition table has nothing to do with amount of RAM seen as installed.
By RAM to do mean, size of HDD? Because that is not RAM, RAM is Random Access Memory, whereas HDD is considered storage space, and not Ram, so if you are saying you have 4*GB of space on your HDD, and it is seeing only 3gb out of 4gb.
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RAM is the size of memory installed. The HDD is 1 TB
Code:
sudo parted -l | grep Partition
then look for partition table, to see if it is gpt or MBR.[/QUOTE]
$ sudo parted -l | grep Partition
[sudo] password for tom:
Partition Table: msdos
B, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xe3a7dfc5
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 58593844 58591797 28G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 58595326 1953330322 1894734997 903.5G 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 58595328 66406399 7811072 3.7G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 66408448 1953330322 1886921875 899.8G 83 Linux
Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.
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Originally Posted by BW-userx
Which equates to being just silly. Because it is a TB limitation on HDD's and not GB limitation. So now I am more confused than when I started.
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Again, the drive is 1 TB. The Physical Memory installed is 4GB. Apple intentionally limited the OS installed on some 64bit MacBooks to only make 3GB RAM available to the user. The MacBook does not have a BIOS. Since the HDD Mint is on has never had an apple OS on it, is 64bit OS with 64bit EFI I do not understand why it does not see all of the RAM. I am thinking the limitation is set in the Intel chipset.
