Bios update on PE2850
Lazy
lazy404 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 11 15:19:16 CST 2008
2008/2/10, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com>:
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 11:35:15PM +0100, Lazy wrote:
> > alredy tried, i rebooted it into init=/bin/sh and it didn't help
> > maybe it's to new/old kernel ?
> > i tried also under 32bit with same results
> >
> > maybe killing highmem in 32 bit mode would help ?
>
> you don't accidentally have the BIOS switch for "OS Install Mode"
> turned on do you? That would limit visible memory to 256MB, which
> would be quite tight for doing a BIOS update with then. What does
> 'free' report?
>
> I haven't seen this behavior when you have sufficient RAM visible to
> the OS. Not to say there couldn't be another problem manifesting
> itself in the same manner...
it sees full 3G
maybe i car run it in debug mode somehow ?
in 3 days the box goes into production again so i will not be able to
mess with it anymore
I will run the reboot procedure again maybe I goofed at something trivial.
thanks for your time
--
Michal Grzedzicki
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