From: covici@ccs.covici.com
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 04:02:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9557.1400745773@ccs.covici.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <537D5507.7030507@gmail.com>
Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> wraeth wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 22/05/14 07:37, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > > Does this ring any bells? I'm out of ideas. Except than pulling out
> the 4
> > > GB, or trying another mainboard.
> >
> > Just a quick suggestion to help rule it out: try booting a LiveCD or other
> > "one-size-fits-most" medium and seeing if your full memory is registering
> > there. If it is, then it's not a hardware malfunction; if it doesn't, then
> > either you've got bad hardware or a configuration issue in your BIOS.
> >
> > cheers
> > wraeth
>
>
> Isn't there a kernel setting that cuts off after 4GBs or something? I
> seem to recall having to turn that on at some point. I would think this
> would be on by default but . . . .
Make sure you are really running a 64-bit kernel! Sure seems like you
are not to me, but there may be other things.
--
Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
How do
you spend it?
John Covici
covici@ccs.covici.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-22 8:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-21 21:37 [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable Alex Schuster
2014-05-21 23:20 ` wraeth
2014-05-22 1:38 ` Dale
2014-05-22 8:02 ` covici [this message]
2014-05-22 9:08 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-05-22 9:25 ` Dale
2014-05-22 2:43 ` wraeth
2014-05-22 8:10 ` Daniel Troeder
2014-05-26 5:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2014-05-27 3:19 ` ny6p01
2014-06-08 18:43 ` Kai Krakow
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