Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIOS says 2GB, MemTest86 says 2GB, top says 900MB

2010-01-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 19 Jan 2010, at 04:30, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> ... Currently the disks are showing up as >> /dev/hda and I thought with newer kernels they were supposed to be >> /dev/sda. With my newest 2.6.32-gentoo-r1 it seems to be trying to be >> /sda,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIOS says 2GB, MemTest86 says 2GB, top says 900MB

2010-01-18 Thread Stroller
On 19 Jan 2010, at 04:30, Mark Knecht wrote: ... Currently the disks are showing up as /dev/hda and I thought with newer kernels they were supposed to be /dev/sda. With my newest 2.6.32-gentoo-r1 it seems to be trying to be /sda, but with 2.6.32-gentoo it's coming up /hda. Bottom line question -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIOS says 2GB, MemTest86 says 2GB, top says 900MB

2010-01-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 20:30 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > High Memory Support to be precise :) In your case CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y > > should do. > > > > Processor Type And Features > > => High Memory Support > > => off / 4Gb / 64Gb > Hi Iai

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIOS says 2GB, MemTest86 says 2GB, top says 900MB

2010-01-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 19:08 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> > How does memory get reported up to the kernel? Is that something in >> > the kernel (i.e. - choosing the proper chipset suppo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIOS says 2GB, MemTest86 says 2GB, top says 900MB

2010-01-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 19:08 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > How does memory get reported up to the kernel? Is that something in > > the kernel (i.e. - choosing the proper chipset support or something) > > or is it purely the return from some sor

[gentoo-user] Re: BIOS says 2GB, MemTest86 says 2GB, top says 900MB

2010-01-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > One of my machines smoked last week so when tearing it apart for spare > parts I noticed the the PC2700 CL 2.5 memory is what my wife's machine > uses and she had only 512MB so I took the opportunity to throw in a > couple of DIMMs. When I boot