Re: Ram Not Showing

[Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com>]

On Saturday 10 December 2005 02:19 pm, Dave Ewart wrote:
> On Saturday, 10.12.2005 at 13:50 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > > > [root@threshnet:thresh]$ uname -a
> > > > Linux threshnet 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Thu May 19 17:40:50 JST 2005 i686
> > > > GNU/Linux
> > > >
> > > > Hal
> > >
> > > You can't get more than about 900 MB of accessible RAM with that
> > > kernel. I'm sorry for not being clear, but I think that the stock
> > > Debian kernels were 4 GB enabled starting with 2.6.11.  So, you would
> > > need to be using a kernel from Etch or Sid.  Alternatively, you can
> > > roll your own.
> > >
> > > -Roberto
> >
> > Arrggghhh!  (Not at you -- just at the thought of rolling my own kernel
> > -- for some reason, I have *never* gotten a kernel I compiled to work
> > properly!)
>
> You don't need to: install the stock *686* 2.6 kernel from Sarge: that
> has high memory support.  The image is: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 - you
> currently have kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386 which is the 2.6 *installation*
> (i.e. 'safe') kernel.
>
> apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686
>
> should do the trick.
>
> Dave.

Yep!  It did it.  There was a bit of a mess up with /boot/grub/menu.lst, since 
the (*#%&@ Adaptec card I have insists on being first in the IDE sequence.  I 
had fixed it previously, but the new menu.lst didn't have the patches.  I 
forgot about it completely until I got a File Not Found error from Grub -- 
then it was just a matter of copying the fixes over from the backup 
menu.list~ aptitude kept for me.  (I've detailed these changes on this list, 
but a search didn't turn them up -- wonder why?)

Thanks!

Hal

Current settings/info:
----------------
[root@threshnet:root]$ grep HIGHMEM /boot/config-2.6.8-2-386
107:CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y
108:# CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set
109:# CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set

[root@threshnet:root]$ uname -a
Linux threshnet 2.6.8-2-686 #1 Thu May 19 17:53:30 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

[root@threshnet:root]$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:      2044344 kB
MemFree:       1819432 kB
Buffers:          5376 kB
Cached:          37820 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:         178600 kB
Inactive:        21140 kB
HighTotal:     1146816 kB
HighFree:       949184 kB
LowTotal:       897528 kB
LowFree:        870248 kB
SwapTotal:      120476 kB
SwapFree:       120476 kB
Dirty:              72 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:         166440 kB
Slab:            12284 kB
Committed_AS:   289752 kB
PageTables:        760 kB
VmallocTotal:   114680 kB
VmallocUsed:      3352 kB
VmallocChunk:   110748 kB