Sorin Srbu <> scribbled on Friday, October 03, 2008 11:36 AM: >> does your bios see 4GB? try also memtest to make sure the 4GB are there. >> cat /proc/meminfo and the boot lines of /var/log/messages > > Will be back shortly with /proc/meminfo and boot-messages from /var/log. Meminfo: MemTotal: 255320 kB MemFree: 5728 kB Buffers: 83704 kB Cached: 60084 kB SwapCached: 29756 kB Active: 115256 kB Inactive: 98380 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 255320 kB LowFree: 5728 kB SwapTotal: 4096532 kB SwapFree: 3990252 kB Dirty: 12 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 63780 kB Mapped: 22460 kB Slab: 24684 kB PageTables: 5260 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB CommitLimit: 4224192 kB Committed_AS: 454592 kB VmallocTotal: 772088 kB VmallocUsed: 4732 kB VmallocChunk: 767136 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB Boot messages from /var/log/messages (hopefully the relevant part): Oct 3 08:48:33 mach002 kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-92.el5 (mockbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)) #1 SMP Tue Jun 10 18:49:47 EDT 2008 Oct 3 08:48:33 mach002 kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: Oct 3 08:48:33 mach002 kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) Oct 3 08:48:33 mach002 kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000ffc0000 (usable) Oct 3 08:48:33 mach002 kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000ffc0000 - 000000000ffcfc00 (ACPI data) Oct 3 08:48:33 mach002 kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000ffcfc00 - 000000000ffff000 (reserved) Oct 3 08:48:33 mach002 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000fec90000 (reserved) Oct 3 08:48:33 mach002 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fed00000 - 00000000fed00400 (reserved) Oct 3 08:48:33 mach002 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved) Oct 3 08:48:33 mach002 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) Oct 3 08:48:33 mach002 kernel: 0MB HIGHMEM available. Oct 3 08:48:33 mach002 kernel: 255MB LOWMEM available. Couldn't get memtest to work... >> what does the rescue mode says? cd1 of 5.2 i386/x86_64 ? When I have cd1, what do I look for?
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