Andreas Jaeger wrote:
"Mike D. Frenz" <mike.frenz@mikerohard.de> writes:
Hello,
here is beginning of /var/log/boot.msg:
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Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.19-SMP Loaded 14399 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.4.19-SMP. Symbols match kernel version 2.4.19. Error seeking in /dev/kmem
Symbol #ide-scsi, value a005f000
Error adding kernel module table entry.
klogd 1.4.1, log source = ksyslog started. <4>Linux version 2.4.19-SMP (root@AMD64.suse.de) (gcc version 3.3 (SuSE Linux)) #1 SMP Wed Jun 25 21:37:18 UTC 2003 <6>BIOS-provided physical RAM map: <4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) <4> BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) <4> BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) <4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000bfff0000 (usable)
this area is 3220111360 bytes = 3075 MB
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000bfff0000 - 00000000bffff000 (ACPI data) <4> BIOS-e820: 00000000bffff000 - 00000000c0000000 (ACPI NVS) <4> BIOS-e820: 00000000ff7c0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
So, your BIOS only reports the above amount of memory to the kernel.
[...] <4>Memory: 3068260k/3145664k available (1861k kernel code, 72920k
[...]
With 4GB RAM free -m gives total 3000 (MB),
Makes perfect sense. How is the IOMMU configured?
The first and only BIOS v1.01 of the TYAN K8W (S2885) is different from the BIOS in the TYAN K8S (S2880). There is NO IOMMU unit to configure. This is a BIOS
problem and *not* a Linux kernel issue,
In the BIOS Screen 8192MB is reported! Even the memory check at bootscreen counts to 8192MB (but stops for about a second at 3GB, runs again to about 7100MB and then jumps instantly to 8192MB (OK) and boots up). I think this behaviour is a bit "fishy", isn´t it?
Andreas
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