Tru Huynh <> scribbled on Friday, October 03, 2008 11:15 AM: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:23:46AM +0200, Sorin at Gmail wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I got the previously mentioned Dell Poweredge 2850 with 4GB RAM and Perc4e >> raid controller. Installation went well and the raid is pretty fast even >> with level 5. >> >> However I have another problem now... CentOS 5.2 only sees 256MB RAM. >> Googling a bit, got me to install kernel-PAE, this went well, but CentOS >> still sees only 256MB. > > does your bios see 4GB? try also memtest to make sure the 4GB are there. > cat /proc/meminfo and the boot lines of /var/log/messages Yupp, pressing F2 at boot and checking in bios says it's 4GB DDR2 ECC IIRC. Is memtest available at an almost full install? Will be back shortly with /proc/meminfo and boot-messages from /var/log. > what does the rescue mode says? cd1 of 5.2 i386/x86_64 ? Did a netinstall, so don't have cd1. Am downloading those now though. Might take a while... 8-) Be back with results soonish. > Tru Thx for fast starterhelp! This is why I like this list! ;-) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5126 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20081003/7ffe36bf/attachment-0005.bin>