Re: Missing memory and the mystery of MTRRs

2021-02-22 Thread Paul Duncan
I have seen a few systems (such as HP Proliant servers) where you need to populate the DIMM slots in order, or it won't necessarily see all the RAM. Wonder if thats the problem. Back to lurking/clearing my E-mail backlog. Paul. On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 at 16:06, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >

Re: missing memory and the mystery of MTRRs

2021-02-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 15 Feb 2021, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 14 feb 21, 12:22:25, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > We had a power outage the other day, and when I tried to restart the > > machine it would get past the Grub screen, then sit there forever with > > a screen that was blank except for a blinking cursor.

Re: Missing memory and the mystery of MTRRs

2021-02-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 13 Feb 2021, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > [This would probably be an FAQ if I knew the proper incantation...] Well, sorta > I realized recently that a box I've been running for a while isn't seeing > all of its installed memory. The BIOS screens indicate that 8GB is > installed, but Debian

Re: missing memory and the mystery of MTRRs

2021-02-15 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, February 14, 2021 03:22:25 PM Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Well, there is one other option: replace the motherboard. Given that > it's becoming increasingly cranky on boot, that might be the way to go. > We had a power outage the other day, and when I tried to restart the > machine it would g

Re: missing memory and the mystery of MTRRs

2021-02-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 14 feb 21, 12:22:25, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > Well, there is one other option: replace the motherboard. Given that > it's becoming increasingly cranky on boot, that might be the way to go. > We had a power outage the other day, and when I tried to restart the > machine it would get past th

Re: missing memory and the mystery of MTRRs

2021-02-14 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 12:22:25 -0800 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > We had a power outage the other day, and when I tried to restart the > machine it would get past the Grub screen, then sit there forever with > a screen that was blank except for a blinking cursor. It took about > half a dozen tries befor

Re: Missing memory and the mystery of MTRRs

2021-02-14 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 13:17:59 -0800 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > I realized recently that a box I've been running for a while isn't > seeing all of its installed memory. The BIOS screens indicate that > 8GB is installed, but Debian (recently upgraded to Buster) only sees > a bit over 3GB. > > cjg@dra

Re: missing memory and the mystery of MTRRs

2021-02-14 Thread Charlie Gibbs
[Sorry about the lack of threading - I read this list via its Usenet group so I can't reply to the list.] On Sun Feb 14 11:58:31 2021 "Alexander V. Makartsev" wrote: > On Sat Feb 13 16:44:34 2021 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > >> [    0.012080] WARNING: BIOS bug: CPU MTRRs don't cover all of >> memor

Re: Missing memory and the mystery of MTRRs

2021-02-14 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 2/13/21 11:17 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > [This would probably be an FAQ if I knew the proper incantation...] > > I realized recently that a box I've been running for a while isn't > seeing all of its installed memory.  The BIOS screens indicate that 8GB > is installed, but Debian (recently upgr

Re: Missing memory and the mystery of MTRRs

2021-02-14 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 14.02.2021 02:17, Charlie Gibbs wrote: [This would probably be an FAQ if I knew the proper incantation...] I realized recently that a box I've been running for a while isn't seeing all of its installed memory.  The BIOS screens indicate that 8GB is installed, but Debian (recently upgraded t

Missing memory and the mystery of MTRRs

2021-02-13 Thread Charlie Gibbs
[This would probably be an FAQ if I knew the proper incantation...] I realized recently that a box I've been running for a while isn't seeing all of its installed memory. The BIOS screens indicate that 8GB is installed, but Debian (recently upgraded to Buster) only sees a bit over 3GB. cjg@