RE: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Dell Poweredge 2850 with 4GB RAM

2008-10-03 Thread Sorin Srbu
Tru Huynh scribbled on Friday, October 03, 2008 11:15 AM: On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:23:46AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I got the previously mentioned Dell Poweredge 2850 with 4GB RAM and Perc4e raid controller. Installation went well and the raid is pretty fast even with

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Dell Poweredge 2850 with 4GB RAM

2008-10-03 Thread Tru Huynh
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:35:51AM +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: Tru Huynh scribbled on Friday, October 03, 2008 11:15 AM: ... does your bios see 4GB? try also memtest to make sure the 4GB are there. cat /proc/meminfo and the boot lines of /var/log/messages Yupp, pressing F2 at boot and

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Dell Poweredge 2850 with 4GB RAM

2008-10-03 Thread Daniel Bird
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However I have another problem now... CentOS 5.2 only sees 256MB RAM. Is OS install mode set to On in the BIOS? I seem to remember this sets the memory limit to 256Mb Dan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

RE: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Dell Poweredge 2850 with 4GB RAM

2008-10-03 Thread Sorin Srbu
Tru Huynh scribbled on Friday, October 03, 2008 11:48 AM: does your bios see 4GB? try also memtest to make sure the 4GB are there. cat /proc/meminfo and the boot lines of /var/log/messages Yupp, pressing F2 at boot and checking in bios says it's 4GB DDR2 ECC IIRC. Is memtest available at

RE: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Dell Poweredge 2850 with 4GB RAM

2008-10-03 Thread Sorin Srbu
Sorin Srbu scribbled on Friday, October 03, 2008 11:36 AM: does your bios see 4GB? try also memtest to make sure the 4GB are there. cat /proc/meminfo and the boot lines of /var/log/messages Will be back shortly with /proc/meminfo and boot-messages from /var/log. Meminfo: MemTotal:

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Dell Poweredge 2850 with 4GB RAM

2008-10-03 Thread Tru Huynh
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:23:46AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I got the previously mentioned Dell Poweredge 2850 with 4GB RAM and Perc4e raid controller. Installation went well and the raid is pretty fast even with level 5. However I have another problem now... CentOS 5.2 only

RE: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Dell Poweredge 2850 with 4GB RAM

2008-10-03 Thread Sorin Srbu
Daniel Bird scribbled on Friday, October 03, 2008 11:57 AM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However I have another problem now... CentOS 5.2 only sees 256MB RAM. Is OS install mode set to On in the BIOS? I seem to remember this sets the memory limit to 256Mb It is in fact. Lemme' check. BRB. BTW,

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Dell Poweredge 2850 with 4GB RAM

2008-10-03 Thread MHR
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Sorin Srbu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Sorry for any n00b-statements from my side. 8-} The truth always comes out eventually :-) mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Dell Poweredge 2850 with 4GB RAM

2008-10-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Daniel Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However I have another problem now... CentOS 5.2 only sees 256MB RAM. Is OS install mode set to On in the BIOS? I seem to remember this sets the memory limit to 256Mb Yes.. that will limit the