From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Frank Fiene <ffiene@veka.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tytso@thunk.org
Subject: Re: Kernel doesn't recognize complete memory
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:24:57 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46869FF9.10909@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200706301946.46918.ffiene@veka.com>
Frank Fiene wrote:
> On Samstag, 30. Juni 2007, Robert Hancock wrote:
>> Frank Fiene wrote:
>>> Lenovo Z61p, Intel Core2 Duo T7200
>>>
>>> I have 4GB RAM installed and BIOS recognize 4GB RAM.
>>> Linux kernel (Ubuntu-7.04, 32bit-PAE and 64bit, openSUSE-10.2
>>> 32bit-PAE and 64bit) tells me: only 3GB of RAM are installed.
>>>
>>> Any other user with a 4GB Thinkpad? tytso?
>>>
>>> What can i do? Please help!
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Frank
>> Please post your bootup dmesg output. If your chipset doesn't support
>> memory remapping above 4GB or the BIOS doesn't enable it, you won't
>> be able to use all 4GB of memory.
>
> Here is me dmesg output, fist 400 lines.
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000bfed0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000bfed0000 - 00000000bfedf000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000bfedf000 - 00000000bff00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000bff00000 - 00000000c0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000f0000000 - 00000000f4000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fed00000 - 00000000fed00400 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fed14000 - 00000000fed1a000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fed1c000 - 00000000fed90000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ff800000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Yes, that's the problem. Your BIOS/chipset only provides about 3070MB of
usable RAM to the OS. Unless there is a memory remap option in the BIOS
that you can enable, there's not much you can do about it.
--
Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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2007-06-29 23:18 ` Kernel doesn't recognize complete memory Robert Hancock
2007-06-30 17:46 ` Frank Fiene
2007-06-30 18:24 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2007-07-01 3:54 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-06-29 20:25 Frank Fiene
2007-06-30 0:34 ` Russell Harmon
2007-06-30 1:08 ` Matti Aarnio
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