Hello, I have a problem with installing Linux on a Compaq Prolian t2500 server with 458M of memory. What my problem is Linux only see 16M of memory. I have tried to use linux-mem458M i get a error. I tried to use linux mem=128M it will install but runs slow. took 2 hours to start KDE.
This is some copy of my report.bug could not send the whole thing. ******************************************************************************** * lspci ******************************************************************************** unknown : Intel Corporation|440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma] [NOT_DEFINED] unknown : IBM|IBM27-82351 [NOT_DEFINED] unknown : IBM|IBM27-82351 [NOT_DEFINED] unknown : Compaq|PCI to EISA Bridge [NOT_DEFINED] Card:Cirrus Logic GD543x: Cirrus Logic|GD 5430/40 [Alpine] [NOT_DEFINED] tlan : Compaq|ProLiant Integrated Netelligent 10/100 [NOT_DEFINED] sym53c8xx : Symbios|53c875 [NOT_DEFINED] sym53c8xx : Symbios|53c875 [NOT_DEFINED] cpqarray : Compaq|Smart-2/P RAID Controller [NOT_DEFINED] ******************************************************************************** * pci_devices ******************************************************************************** 0000 80861237 0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0068 10140022 0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0090 10140022 0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00a0 0e110001 0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0130 101300a0 0 41000008 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 01000000 00000400 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 01000000 0138 0e11ae43 a 00006801 40002200 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000010 00000010 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00010000 tlan 0148 1000000f b 00006001 40002000 40000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000100 00000100 00001000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0158 1000000f 5 00006401 40002100 40001000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000100 00000100 00001000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0200 0e11ae10 9 00007001 40100000 48000008 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000100 00000100 08000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004000 ******************************************************************************** * fdisk ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** * scsi ******************************************************************************** Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 Vendor: QUANTUM Model: DLT7000 Rev: 1624 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 ******************************************************************************** * lsmod ******************************************************************************** loop 7536 0 lp 5712 0 (unused) parport_pc 22320 1 parport 21056 1 [lp parport_pc] tlan 22800 0 (unused) cpqarray 16368 3 serial 66080 0 af_packet 8272 0 (unused) sd_mod 10528 0 (unused) isofs 14984 1 sym53c8xx 54292 0 (unused) sr_mod 12648 0 (unused) scsi_mod 48168 3 [sd_mod sym53c8xx sr_mod] ide-cd 25980 1 cdrom 28704 0 [sr_mod ide-cd] ******************************************************************************** * cmdline ******************************************************************************** ramdisk_size=32000 initrd=cdrom.rdz automatic=method:cdrom root=/dev/ram3 vga=788 BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz mem=128M ******************************************************************************** * pcmcia: stab ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** * usb ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** * partitions ******************************************************************************** major minor #blocks name rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect wuse running use aveq 72 0 8384400 ida/c0d0 38619 96675 1082224 107820 70992 442262 3349938 4454540 0 116250 4594140 72 1 3582224 ida/c0d0p1 37397 93661 1048654 107710 69020 369714 3182328 2779800 0 103260 2919270 72 2 1 ida/c0d0p2 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 72 5 252944 ida/c0d0p5 1181 3011 33362 110 1048 1993 24318 16690 0 1600 16800 72 6 4549184 ida/c0d0p6 24 3 174 0 918 70555 143280 1658050 0 18080 1658070 3 0 664302 hda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ******************************************************************************** * cpuinfo ******************************************************************************** processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 1 model name : Pentium Pro stepping : 9 cpu MHz : 199.460 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov bogomips : 397.31 ******************************************************************************** * syslog ******************************************************************************** ] kernel/system logger ok <4>Linux version 2.4.8-24mdkBOOT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Mandrake Linux 8.1 2.96-0.62mdk)) #1 Wed Sep 19 16:47:35 CEST 2001 <6>BIOS-provided physical RAM map: <4> BIOS-88: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable) <4> BIOS-88: 0000000000100000 - 0000000001000000 (usable) <4>On node 0 totalpages: 32768 <4>zone(0): 4096 pages. <4>zone(1): 28672 pages. <4>zone(2): 0 pages. <4>Kernel command line: ramdisk_size=32000 initrd=cdrom.rdz automatic=method:cdrom root=/dev/ram3 vga=788 BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz mem=128M <6>Initializing CPU#0 <4>Detected 199.460 MHz processor. <4>Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 <4>Calibrating delay loop... 397.31 BogoMIPS <4>Memory: 126680k/131072k available (759k kernel code, 4004k reserved, 201k data, 92k init, 0k highmem) <4>Dentry-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) <4>Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) <4>Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) <4>Buffer-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) <4>Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) <7>CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0000fbff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 <6>CPU: L1 I cache: 8K, L1 D cache: 8K <6>CPU: L2 cache: 512K <6>Intel machine check architecture supported. <6>Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. <7>CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0000fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 <7>CPU: After generic, caps: 0000fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 <7>CPU: Common caps: 0000fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 <4>CPU: Intel Pentium Pro stepping 09 <6>Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. <6>Checking for popad bug... OK. <4>POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX <4>PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0068, last bus=2 <4>PCI: Using configuration type 1 <4>PCI: Probing PCI hardware <4>PCI: Device 00:00 not found by BIOS <4>PCI: Device 00:a0 not found by BIOS <6>Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. <6>Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 <6>Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 <4>Starting kswapd v1.8 <4>block: queued sectors max/low 84112kB/28037kB, 256 slots per queue <4>RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize <6>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 <4>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx <4>hda: HITACHI CDR-7930, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 <6>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M <6>FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 <6>NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 <6>IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP <4>IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes <4>TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) <6>NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. <5>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 <4>Uncompressing................................done. <4>Freeing initrd memory: 507k freed <4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). <4>hda: ATAPI 8X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache <6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 <6>SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 <6>sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 1, device 9, function 0 <6>sym53c8xx: 53c875 detected <6>sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 1, device 11, function 0 <6>sym53c8xx: 53c875 detected <6>sym53c875-0: rev 0x3 on pci bus 1 device 9 function 0 irq 11 <6>sym53c875-0: ID 7, Fast-20, Parity Checking <6>sym53c875-1: rev 0x4 on pci bus 1 device 11 function 0 irq 5 <6>sym53c875-1: ID 7, Fast-20, Parity Checking <6>scsi0 : sym53c8xx-1.7.3c-20010512 <6>scsi1 : sym53c8xx-1.7.3c-20010512 <4> Vendor: QUANTUM Model: DLT7000 Rev: 1624 <4> Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 <7>ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A <6>Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled <6>ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A <6>ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A <7>cpqarray: Device 0xe11 has been found at bus 2 dev 0 func 0 <4>Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.4.5) <4>Found 1 controller(s) <6>cpqarray: Finding drives on ida0 (SMART-2SL) <6>cpqarray ida/c0d0: blksz=512 nr_blks=16768800 <6>Partition check: <6> ida/c0d0: p1 <7>Winbond Super-IO detection, now testing ports 3F0,370,250,4E,2E ... <7>SMSC Super-IO detection, now testing Ports 2F0, 370 ... <6>parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc [PCSPP] <7>parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38) <7>parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38) <7>parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38) <7>parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38) <4>imm: Version 2.05 (for Linux 2.4.0) <4>ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.4.x) <4>WARNING - no ppa compatible devices found. <4> As of 31/Aug/1998 Iomega started shipping parallel <4> port ZIP drives with a different interface which is <4> supported by the imm (ZIP Plus) driver. If the <4> cable is marked with "AutoDetect", this is what has <4> happened. <6> ida/c0d0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 > <6>Adding Swap: 252936k swap-space (priority -1) <7>ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A <6>ThunderLAN driver v1.14a <6>TLAN: eth0 irq=10, io=6800, Compaq Netelligent Integrated 10/100 TX UTP, Rev. 16 <6>TLAN: 1 device installed, PCI: 1 EISA: 0 <7>Winbond Super-IO detection, now testing ports 3F0,370,250,4E,2E ... <7>SMSC Super-IO detection, now testing Ports 2F0, 370 ... <6>parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc [PCSPP] <7>parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38) <7>parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38) <7>parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38) <7>parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38) <6>lp0: using parport0 (polling). <6>loop: loaded (max 8 devices) ******************************************************************************** * ddcxinfos ******************************************************************************** 1024KB of video ram 16 132 43 16 132 25 16 800 600 256 800 600 16 1024 768 256 640 400 256 640 480 256 1024 768 65536 640 480 65536 800 600 32768 640 480 32768 800 600 16 800 600 16 1280 1024 16777216 640 480 Thanks Bill Nash
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