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From: Jeremy Johnston <jeremy@smart-serv.net>
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Subject: Re: K8N-VM CSM not seeing over 2240MB RAM
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Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> use PAE or (even better) 64-bit kernel
>
>
> On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Jeremy Johnston wrote:
>
>> I have been trying to trouble shoot a problem where my 32bit kernel will
>> not see past 2240MB of RAM where as the BIOS reports it as 3GB. Windows
>> on the same machine sees all 3GB.
>>
>> My dmesg can be found at http://www.smart-serv.net/~jeremy/dmesg.txt
>>
>> Any suggestions on what could be the cause of this would be greatly
>> appreciated.
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I attempted PAE but it panics with some modules I require. And I would 
gladly go to 64bit if I didnt need the nvidia drivers.
But there is no reason the kernel should see less then 3GB when x86 can 
handle up to 4. Bit confused on this.