On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 12:08 +0000, John Hannfield wrote: > > I have a dual core Opteron 265 running in a Tyan K8WE (S2877) > motherboard with > 4 x 1GB RAM DDR modules. The BIOS displays the RAM as 4094 MB, but > using > a fresh install of testing/unstable from the AMD64 etch net-installer, > I can still only > see 3.2 GB out of the 4GB RAM... > > I am using the amd64-generic kernel that net-install gave me. > Do I need to be using a different kernel to get the full 4GB RAM? No, you have to set the right BIOS options if they are available on your motherboard.
On my motherboard (Tyan S2885) I had to set the "MTRR mapping" from continuous to discrete and "Software Memory Hole" from disabled to enabled. -- Groeten, Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.V. Molukkenstraat 14 6524NB Nijmegen tel: 024-3888063 / 06-51855277 fax: 024-3608416 web: www.askesis.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]