Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Thursday 15 November 2007, Bill Wohler wrote:
>> > > Please find hardware-summary attached. Note that free: stanza is
>> > > incorrect--I actually have 2 GB of memory.
>> >
>> > It might, but Linux is definitely only seeing a bit less than 1 GB of
>> > that.  Does "free" report the full 2 GB on other OSes (Ubuntu Live CD,
>> > Windows?), and/or do you see the full 2 GB with "memtest86+"?
>>
>> Hi Jim, I just noticed that 1 GB was in the report. My system--once
>> installed--has always reported 2 GB. The question is: why did only 1 GB
>> appear in the report?
>
> No idea. But it _does_ mean that the kernel only saw 1 GB during the 
> installation. One possible cause may be that the installer uses a 486 
> kernel while the installed system will probably have gotten a 686 kernel.

Yes. That's why.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep HIGHMEM /boot/config-2.6.22-3-686 
# CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set
CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
# CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM is not set

while -486 hasn't it set.

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