Hi all, Managed to update form 7.2 to 8.0. My old 7.2 is in /dev/hdb1 and new 8.0 is in /dev/hdc1 My system has 1GB RAM and the 7.2 boot shows 1024 MB RAM at the login screen (as below) ---One 933MHz Intel Pentium III Processor, 1024 RAM However the 8.0 boot shoe only 1005MB RAM at the login screen (as below) ---One 933MHz Intel Pentium III Processor, 1005 RAM Can anyone tell me why this dicrepency. What is happening to 19MB of RAM? The dmesg on 8.0 shows the following result -------dmesg 8.0--------------------------------- BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fffc000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000003fffc000 - 000000003ffff000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000003ffff000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 127MB HIGHMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 262140 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 225280 pages. zone(2): 32764 pages. initrd extends beyond end of memory (0x3bfff000 > 0x38000000) disabling initrd Kernel command line: root=/dev/hdc1 hdd=ide-scsi vga=788 ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi Initializing CPU#0 Detected 933.370 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 1861.22 BogoMIPS Memory: 1028416k/1048560k available (980k kernel code, 19756k reserved, 287k data, 696k init, 131056k highmem) ------------------------------------------------------ What does BIOS-provided physical RAM map mean? Where as the 7.2 dmesg shows ----------------dmesg 7.2---------------------------- 127MB BIGMEM available. Detected 933391 KHz processor. ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi Initializing CPU#0 Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 1861.22 BogoMIPS Memory: 1035588k/1048512k available (1136k kernel code, 416k reserved, 10848k data, 128k init, 131008k highmem) ----------------------------------------------------- Incidently, the precompiled 2.4.3-20mdk kernel could detect only 896MB out of 1024MB present since the HIGHMEM option was off. I had to recompile the kernel with HIGHMEM option. Thanks in advance. Venkatesh __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
