[Bug 297602] New: openSUSE 10. 2 will not boot after expanding RAM to 4GB and whole ram is not accessed.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=297602 Summary: openSUSE 10.2 will not boot after expanding RAM to 4GB and whole ram is not accessed. Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 10.2 Status: NEW Keywords: Code Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: peterbiely@post.sk QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Other Created an attachment (id=155621) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=155621) Attached file contains info of dmesg, free and uname commands. My HW: MoBo: Gigabyte P965-DS3 rev 2.0 BIOS F9 CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 RAM: now 4GB (4x 1GiB GoodRAM 667MHz) VGA: nVidia 7600GT HDD: Seagate 250GB SATA DVD: LG H42L ATA I had 2GB RAM and openSUSE 10.2 x64 booted and worked fine. Problem occured after I bought next 2 1GiB RAM modules and put them into MoBO. First problem was that SuSE didn't boot! After few attempts I've successfully booted it with grub parameter: mem=4096M (I guessed it :-) ) but after KDE is started (second problem) I see in sysinfo:/ that I have Total memory (RAM): 3,43 GB Attached file contains displays of few (I hope) usable commands. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=297602 User jeffm@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=297602#c1 Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jeffm@novell.com AssignedTo|kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com |ak@novell.com --- Comment #1 from Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@novell.com> 2008-01-07 14:44:05 MST --- Strange. It looks like even though the BIOS e820 table describes the last 500 MB, the kernel isn't seeing it for whatever reason. Needing mem=4096M is certainly odd too. Andi, any idea? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=297602 User peterbiely@post.sk added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=297602#c2 --- Comment #2 from Peter Biely <peterbiely@post.sk> 2008-01-08 02:51:31 MST --- In my case everything was solved by new install of openSUSE 10.3 :-) RAM size is now OK and works fine. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=297602 User jeffm@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=297602#c3 Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #3 from Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@novell.com> 2008-01-08 10:00:19 MST --- Ok, if it's fixed with 10.3, I'll close this one out. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=297602 User ak@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=297602#c4 --- Comment #4 from Andi Kleen <ak@novell.com> 2008-01-08 22:45:06 MST --- The original installation installed a non PAE kernel which can only handle 4GB of address space. But the last 500MB is beyond 4GB so you would have needed to change to a "bigsmp" PAE kernel. The 10.3 install then saw the extended memory and installed bigsmp. As for not booting -- can't say much without a log. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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