First, the 24 vs 32 meg issue:
This is only a wild guess, but does your mobo perhaps have onboard video?
Some mobos (not all) with onboard video use "shared" memory for video, which
means that the video card uses a portion of the memory that would normally
be available to the system. On the one such mobo I have, video grabs 8 mb --
eithe an interesting coincidence or, possibly, the reason for your missing
memory.
Only a guess, though. In any case, since (you say) it happens with Windows
as well as with Linux, it surely is some sort of BIOS-level phenomenon, not
a Linux problem as such.
On the partition issue: first. hda2 is "eating" 1K, not 1M, of space by your
report. (If this report were in megabytes, your hdd would be a 10-terabyte
drive, a size even I would find daunting.)
Second, it is surely an extended partition, sort of a "wrapper" that in turn
holds the partition table for hda5 and hda6. IDE drives can have only 4
"real" partitions. They can be 4 primary partitions or 3 primary and 1
extended partition. In the second case, the extended can hold any number (or
at least some large number) of additional "logical" partitions.
Look at the drive a bit more carefully with fdisk or cfdisk and you will
probably see this relationship.
At 07:06 PM 8/3/00 +0530, Madan A S wrote:
> [root@Madan]$cat /proc/meminfo
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
>Mem: 22892544 22360064 532480 13049856 618496 13893632
>Swap: 73986048 2600960 71385088
>MemTotal: 22356 kB
>MemFree: 520 kB
>MemShared: 12744 kB
>Buffers: 604 kB
>Cached: 13568 kB
>BigTotal: 0 kB
>BigFree: 0 kB
>SwapTotal: 72252 kB
>SwapFree: 69712 kB
>
>This the output of cat /proc/memento in my Linux system
>The imp point over here is that Mem:22892544
>but when I boot the initial memcheck counts untill 32768K
>which is a difference of 12MB , The same happens in my windows
>also which says my ram is 24MB
>Thus my system utilizes only 24 of 32MB available
>Physical check reveals it is indeed 4chips of 8MB in SIM
>
>Can anyone suggest what is wrong ? and what is the remedy ?
>-----------------------
>[root@Madan]$cat /proc/partitions
>major minor #blocks name
>
> 3 0 6298425 hda
> 3 1 4024251 hda1
> 3 2 1 hda2
> 3 3 128520 hda3
> 3 4 1646662 hda4
> 3 5 425691 hda5
> 3 6 72261 hda6
> 22 64 1073741823 hdd
>
> I think you have recognised my problem , i can't eliminate hda2 which is
>just eating 1Mb of space
>partition magic and fdisk doesn't display its existance
>
>Do you have any idea !!!
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