From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) Description of problem: kernel-2.4.9-31.i686.rpm only sees 896MB of memory the debug version 2.4.9-31debug sees it all 1.5GB. I have seen this on a 2.2GHZ P4 and a 1.2GHZ Athalon Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Loaded all errata and kernel-2.4.9-31.i686.rpm 2.Reboot you only see 986MB of 1.5GB of memory 3.Loaded the debug version an all memory shows up. Additional info:
are you very very very sure it's the i686 kernel you're using ? (the i386 kernel has the 896 limit, the i686 kernel goes to about 4Gb) rpm -q --qf %{arch} kernel should tell you which kernel(s) for which architectures are installed.
The command did not work. 2:root@rndpcs3 /root > rpm -q --qf %{arch} kernel error: incorrect format: missing { after % 3:root@rndpcs3 /root > uname -a Linux rndpcs3 2.4.9-31 #1 Tue Feb 26 06:53:37 EST 2002 i686 unknown top shows Mem: 899652K av running the debug version top shows Mem: 1544412K av
Closing old bug about wrong kernel image