Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264868AbUD2VYB (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:24:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264859AbUD2VVi (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:21:38 -0400 Received: from [216.150.199.16] ([216.150.199.16]:59824 "EHLO mail.aspsys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264853AbUD2VRf (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:17:35 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:17:33 -0600 From: Bryan Stillwell To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Denis Vlasenko Subject: Re: Dual Opteron 248s w/ 8GB RAM on Tyan K8W (S2885) Message-ID: <20040429211733.GD15563@aspsys.com> References: <20040428225331.GA19698@aspsys.com> <200404300005.02814.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200404300005.02814.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1209 Lines: 30 On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 12:05:02AM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: >Latest memtest86 rumored to support testing more than 4Gb or RAM. >You may try it and see whether it detects all the RAM. During the 20% chance of it actually booting up, I've been able to capture /proc/meminfo. It reports MemTotal as 7642992 kB. I've been told that Tyan boards allocate almost 0.5GB for some reason for their own use... You can check out the logs I made from the bugzilla report I sent to RedHat: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121868 You'll notice that when it has 4GB in the system, the MemTotal is 3530868 kB... The Rioworks board recognized close to the full amount with both 4GB and 8GB installed. I've also tested Mandrake 10.0rc1 and SuSE 9.0, and they have the same issues that RedHat has... Bryan -- Aspen Systems, Inc. | http://www.aspsys.com/ Production Engineer | Phone: (303)431-4606 bryans@aspsys.com | Fax: (303)431-7196 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/