Re: [osol-discuss] Bad Memory

2009-06-26 Thread Luis Martinez
Hi to all! I'm very new in OpenSolaris. I came from Linux world and I am experimenting various differences. Recently, i adquired a new PC with Quad processor and 4 Gb RAM. My BIOS detects 4 Gb but OpenSolaris only sees 3 Gb. My chipset is Intel® G31 - ICH7. What i'm doig wrong? How can i

Re: [osol-discuss] Bad Memory

2009-06-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Luis Martinez luismartinezdea...@yahoo.es wrote: Hi to all! I'm very new in OpenSolaris. I came from Linux world and I am experimenting various differences. Recently, i adquired a new PC with Quad processor and 4 Gb RAM. My BIOS detects 4 Gb but OpenSolaris only sees 3 Gb. My chipset is

Re: [osol-discuss] Bad Memory

2009-06-26 Thread Luis Martinez
Well, i was suspecting that, but i don't now how to do that!!! I installed the system from CD and grub only shows one option. I wonder if i confused in the installation... i don't know. How can i choose 32-bit or 64-bit kernels? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Bad Memory

2009-06-26 Thread Brian Ruthven - Sun UK
I'd be very surprised if the system booted the wrong kernel by default. [ If it did, then please file a bug. ] I'm assuming your CPU is 64-bit? If so, there are some things you can look at to check you've booted 64-bit. 1) The boot line will say something like: SunOS Release 5.11 Version

Re: [osol-discuss] Bad Memory

2009-06-26 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
_If_ both were installed, you can do that by editing the grub menu (and then running bootadm update-archive). By default, it will normally boot 64-bit if that is supported. bootadm list-menu will tell you where the grub menu is located, and what its contents are. It's a simple text file, any

Re: [osol-discuss] Bad Memory

2009-06-26 Thread Luis Martinez
Me too :-\ My processor is a Quad Core and has to be 64 bit. I've had the same problems with Ubuntu 9.04 and 8.10 (64 bit kernel). I suspect that is a hardware limitation but i ignore them. Motherboard is Asrock but i don't remember the model number. Now I'm wondering... am i downloading the

[osol-discuss] Bad Memory

2009-06-17 Thread Steve
Hi all, I've got a Dell GX280SD that had 2 GB of RAM in it and all was well. Today, I installed 4 GB of RAM (2 x 2 GB). The 4 GB shows up in the BIOS and Windows Vista can see the 4 GB (multibooting) but FreeBSD and OpenSolaris can only recognize 3 GB. I put the snv_115 install CD in and

Re: [osol-discuss] Bad Memory

2009-06-17 Thread Ron Halstead
Try http://www.memtest.org/ --ron -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Bad Memory

2009-06-17 Thread Jürgen Keil
I've got a Dell GX280SD that had 2 GB of RAM in it and all was well. Today, I installed 4 GB of RAM (2 x 2 GB). The 4 GB shows up in the BIOS and Windows Vista can see the 4 GB (multibooting) but FreeBSD and OpenSolaris can only recognize 3 GB. I put the snv_115 install CD in and booted