32bit OS on 64Bit Hardware...
Frank, Ryan W
ryan.w.frank at bankofamerica.com
Thu Jun 1 10:58:33 UTC 2006
Sorry, yes I am sure...
Linux cltrsklccs01 2.4.21-40.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Feb 2 22:14:12 EST 2006
i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
-Ryan
-----Original Message-----
From: Arjan van de Ven [mailto:arjan at fenrus.demon.nl]
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 5:08 PM
To: Frank, Ryan W
Cc: amd64-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: 32bit OS on 64Bit Hardware...
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 16:42 -0400, Frank, Ryan W wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I am trying to build a DL-385 with AS 3.0 Update 7 32bit... The
> developer specified he wanted the 32bit os... Anywho.. the box posts
> with 8gb of RAM. During the boot process I see the following message:
>
> May 31 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> May 31 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 -
> 000000000009f400 (usable) May 31 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 kernel:
> BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) May 31
> 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 -
> 0000000000100000 (reserved) May 31 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 kernel:
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000f57f8000 (usable) May 31
> 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000f57f8000 -
> 00000000f5800000 (ACPI data) May 31 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 kernel:
> BIOS-e820: 00000000fdc00000 - 00000000fdc01000 (reserved) May 31
> 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fdc10000 -
> 00000000fdc11000 (reserved) May 31 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 kernel:
> BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved) May 31
> 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fec10000 -
> 00000000fec11000 (reserved) May 31 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 kernel:
> BIOS-e820: 00000000fec20000 - 00000000fec21000 (reserved) May 31
> 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 syslog: klogd startup succeeded May 31 15:22:37
> cltrsklccs01 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000
> (reserved) May 31 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 kernel: BIOS-e820:
> 00000000ff800000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) May 31 15:22:37
> cltrsklccs01 kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 00000001fffff000
> (usable) May 31 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 kernel: Warning only 4GB will be
> used.
> May 31 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 kernel: Use a PAE enabled kernel.
> May 31 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 kernel: 3200MB HIGHMEM available.
> May 31 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 kernel: 896MB LOWMEM available.
>
> When the OS comes up I only see 4gb of RAM. I am using the SMP
> kernel (should support 8gb), and as far as I can tell PAE is
> enabled...
are you really really sure you're using the right kernel?
(you conveniently cut that bit off the dmesg ;)
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