ram not detected correctly

[Sebastian Wild]

I got a Proliant 2500 from my brother. Now I want to install Linux to it. In fact the Server contains 256mb ram but Debian and SuSE both do only detect 15mb. If I tell the kernel there are 256mb it panics because the initrd fails to load. What is wrong here?

Wastl

[harry d brown jr]

Bad memory?

Have you tried reseating the memory cards?

What order are the memory cards in?

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harry

[Sebastian Wild]

The bios recognizes them correctly as 256mb. Memtest-86 also told me there are 256mb and did not show up with any error yet.
So it looks like if just Linux couldn't figure out the correct ram size...

Wastl

[Ed Felton_1]

Sebastian;

Are you telling it there's 256 MB via the mem= directive at the boot prompt?

I don't know about Debian, or SuSE, but both RedHat and Mandrake were happy with the mem= directive, when I installed on my 1500.

[Sebastian Wild]

Yes did that but SuSe was not happy with it.
Have to try again with debian...