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Re: POWER6 not seeing memory above 2Gb



> Good question.  I installed the machine with grub2 originally years ago,
> so I didn't have to try (I wanted MD raid1 which yaboot couldn't handle
> at that time, so I wanted grub2 to work, no matter what it took).  Took
> some work at the time, debugging disk issues and other issues in grub2,
> but eventually grub2 got to the point of working on the p520 properly.
> These days it ought to just work.
>
> I remember needing a Prep boot partition, which grub-install was then
> pointed at.  I can't remember if yaboot does it the same way.
>
> It might be as simple as installing the grub-ieee1275 package and running
> grub-install /dev/sda1 (assuming sda1 is the PReP boot partition).
>
> --
> Len Sorensen

So I have grub2 booting the same kernel but again the same result.
Only 2Gb available.


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