Hi all, I run SuSE 9 Pro on Amilo M 7600 laptop, with built in secure digital cards reader (Winbond controller). Do someone have an idea how to use it ? lspci -v does not show it at all. When I load usb storrage and sd modules, nothing happens. What to try next ? TIA... -- Eng. Dusan Djordjevic (RHCE)
I am trying to add more memory to my Linux box. The specs on the box state that it is upgradable to 2GB. I added a 512MB stick in addition to the 128MB stick and I could not configure it past 384MB. I changed the order of the sticks, I entered append "mem=640M" in the lilo.conf and ran lilo. To test the memory stick, I put it in another computer (WinXP) and the full 512M showed up. I put a 256M along with the 128M and the results were the same as when I had the 512MB. Is there a configuration or kernel parameter I need to change or has someone run into this situation before? My version is linux:/usr/lib/java # uname -a Linux linux 2.4.20-4GB-athlon #1 Fri Mar 12 15:34:26 UTC 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux Here is the output from free -m: inux:/usr/lib/java # free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 360 356 4 0 17 192 -/+ buffers/cache: 146 214 Swap: 1019 3 1015
On Friday 23 April 2004 10:37, David Straiton wrote:
I am trying to add more memory to my Linux box. The specs on the box state that it is upgradable to 2GB.
It's not Linux it's the motherboard. It can only deal with memory chips of a certain size. How many memory slots? If there are 4 then division says you can have 512 per slot. That might need to be a double sided 512 stick, it would probably only see 256 of a single sided stick.
I added a 512MB stick in addition to the 128MB stick and I could not configure it past 384MB. Yep, it's only seeing 256 of the 512. You'll see this while BIOS checks the ram on startup. The number won't be 384 Meg exactly because a Meg isn't 10^6 bytes.
I changed the order of the sticks, I entered append "mem=640M" in the lilo.conf and ran lilo.
To test the memory stick, I put it in another computer (WinXP) and the full 512M showed up. I put a 256M along with the 128M and the results were the same as when I had the 512MB. Is there a configuration or kernel parameter I need to change or has someone run into this situation before?
Check the motherboard manufacturer's website and check the changelogs of the BIOS. A BIOS update might get it to see the bigger chips. Otherwise, go back to the supplier they might have 256 Meg sticks. mine kept swapping them until it became clear that it was a motherboard limitation. Then I turned to the local linux group and found some people who were happy to swap my new sticks for older RAM that would work for me. Good luck, michaelj -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166
Dear all, yesterday night I had the following trouble: 1. I have used Partition Magic 7 in WXP for creating a 2.5 Gb partition in FAT32 fs in orde to use this disk space for common data between Linux and Windows. So, my set up of disk, was this one (approximately): whole disk: 75Gb Windows(C): 25Gb (NTFS, primary, OS) Windows(D): 20Gb (NTFS, logical) Windows(G): 2.5Gb (FAT32) Linux Swap (1Gb): 1G Linux native (reiserfs) 27G I have rebooted. 2. After rebooting, GRUB started in essntial mode: but 'cause I am quite new to Linux, I have tried to use CD 1 of SUSE Pro 9.0 (my installation) and I managed to recover SUSE and GRUB as well. I have rebooted one more time. 3. GRUB recognised correctely SUSE 9.0, but not Windows XP, an, moreover, lost the users. I have created the same users (only one) that I had, and everything about Linux world was fine, but no idea about what happened to Windows. 4. Checking filesystem, I have discovered that I had this configuration /dev/hda1 25Gb (Extended) NO MOUNT /dev/hda5 20Gb (NTFS) mount: /c/windows /dev/hda6 2.5Gb (FAT32) mount /d/windows /swap 1Gb (Linux swap) / 27Gb (Linux native) So, Previous D has become C, previous G has become D, and no mountpoint is present on the "real" C, where there is the OS..... Do you have any suggestion about this problem??? Thank you in advance LM
In a previous message, Luca Mollica
whole disk: 75Gb Windows(C): 25Gb (NTFS, primary, OS) Windows(D): 20Gb (NTFS, logical) Windows(G): 2.5Gb (FAT32) Linux Swap (1Gb): 1G Linux native (reiserfs) 27G [snip] /dev/hda1 25Gb (Extended) NO MOUNT /dev/hda5 20Gb (NTFS) mount: /c/windows /dev/hda6 2.5Gb (FAT32) mount /d/windows /swap 1Gb (Linux swap) / 27Gb (Linux native)
It looks like you messed up when using Partition Magic. First giveaway is that you wanted to have 5 partitions, which isn't possible on IDE drives without using extended partitions (which are non-data-storing "holder" for other partitions that can store data); there's a max of 4 physical partitions on IDE disks. Also, do I understand correctly that you have repartitioned a disk with existing Windows and linux installations? If so, you might have a problem rescuing it - first thing to try is simply deleting the new 2.5GB partition, which would at least get you back to 4 partitions. What you seem to have done (from the linux descriptions) is to turn the first partition into an extended partition rather than a physical partition - this might have unfortunate consequences! Then, you have created two more partitions, one NTFS and one FAT32. Then, there are two more physical partitions, with lots of free space on the end. What you need is something like: 25GB NTFS, physical, primary (NOT extended or logical partition) 20GB NTFS, physical 2.5GB FAT32, physical 27.5GB extended partition, containing two logical partitions ---1GB linux swap ---26.5GB linux native HTH John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Fields of Valour: 2 Norse clans battle on one of 3 different boards
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