I am trying to build
a DL-385 with AS 3.0 Update 7 32bit... The developer specified he wanted the
32bit os... Anywho.. the box posts with 8gb of RAM. During the boot
process I see the following message:
May 31 15:22:37
cltrsklccs01 kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: May 31 15:22:37
cltrsklccs01 kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400
(usable) May 31 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 kernel: BIOS-e820:
000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) May 31 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01
kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) May
31 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 -
00000000f57f8000 (usable) May 31 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 kernel:
BIOS-e820: 00000000f57f8000 - 00000000f5800000 (ACPI data) May 31 15:22:37
cltrsklccs01 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fdc00000 - 00000000fdc01000
(reserved) May 31 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 kernel: BIOS-e820:
00000000fdc10000 - 00000000fdc11000 (reserved) May 31 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01
kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved) May
31 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fec10000 -
00000000fec11000 (reserved) May 31 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 kernel:
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec20000 - 00000000fec21000 (reserved) May 31 15:22:37
cltrsklccs01 syslog: klogd startup succeeded May 31 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01
kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved) May
31 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ff800000 -
0000000100000000 (reserved) May 31 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 kernel:
BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 00000001fffff000 (usable) May 31 15:22:37
cltrsklccs01 kernel: Warning only 4GB will be used. May 31 15:22:37
cltrsklccs01 kernel: Use a PAE enabled kernel. May 31 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01
kernel: 3200MB HIGHMEM available. May 31 15:22:37 cltrsklccs01 kernel: 896MB
LOWMEM available.
When the OS comes up
I only see 4gb of RAM. I am using the SMP kernel (should support
8gb), and as far as I can tell PAE is enabled... Checked in /proc/cpuinfo... I
have even tried specifying mem=8192M on the kernel line in grub.conf... still no
luck...
I *believe* the
32bit OS will not see the additional RAM, I am just looking for any information
that could point me to why so I can explain to the developers...