System Only Recognizing 256 MB Ram

[Bret]

The bios on Dell 1850 has a OS install setting which
can cause this.


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> Rick Stevens
> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 4:43 PM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: System Only Recognizing 256 MB Ram
>
> On 01/07/2010 03:04 PM, Ronald Mccarty wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > Hope someone can give me some help here...
> >
> > I have a Dell 1850 with 4 X 1 GB memory sticks that the
> linux kernel is only recognizing 256 MB...well actually 249
> it's reporting:
> >
> > [root at asvhyp1 proc]# free -m
> >               total       used       free     shared
> buffers     cached
> > Mem:           249         98        150          0
>  8         64
> > -/+ buffers/cache:         24        224
> > Swap:         2047          0       2047
> >
> >
> > I originally thought it was a Xen / Kernel issue; however,
> booting the
> > system to a non zen kernel reports the same issue.  (dmesg is
> > reporting 256 MB low mem, and no high)
> >
> > It seems like I saw something years ago when getting 32-bit
> systems to see 4 GB was more magic than science, but I'm stumped.
> >
> > The Dell BIOS is showing the 4 GB.
> >
> > If you don't have any insight, maybe some tips on helpful
> commands would be useful.
>
> We need to know what RHEL version you're running.
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