64 Bit Linux shows 4GB... was Using all of 4GB RAM...

[Fred Silsbee]

--- On Fri, 10/3/08, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> From: Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
> Subject: Re: 64 Bit Linux shows 4GB... was Using all of 4GB RAM...
> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Friday, October 3, 2008, 2:01 AM
> On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 10:44 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Now if we could figgur out why grub takes about a
> minute to present
> > the boot menu.
> 
> Do you have a collection of connected bootable drives, or
> interfaces for
> drives (even if none are plugged into them).  If so, it
> could be trying
> to enumerate them before proceeding.
> 
perhaps a bad entry (drive name) in the grub table! Here is mine /boot/grub/grub.conf

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sdb
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686)
        root (hd1,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686)
        root (hd1,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686)
        root (hd1,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686.img
title XP Professional
        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        chainloader +1


When I installed F9, I found the question (sounds like)

"what drive do you want to boot to"

ambivalent .

I have XP Prof on scsi a and F9 on scsi b

I think one boots to scsi a first to get the grub stuff and then to F9 on scsi b.

I had to do some swift grub admin to clear up that mess using the rescue disk = install disk.

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> 2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686
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