ppc64 only seeing 2Gb of memory

[epitaxial]

Hello all, I have Debian 8 jessie installed on an IBM POWER6 box. There is 16Gb of memory however the kernel is only seeing 2Gb. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Here is the output of /proc/meminfo

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MemTotal:        2048640 kB
MemFree:         1866688 kB
MemAvailable:    1931392 kB
Buffers:           17536 kB
Cached:            71872 kB
SwapCached:            0 kB
Active:            80576 kB
Inactive:          40256 kB
Active(anon):      33216 kB
Inactive(anon):    12736 kB
Active(file):      47360 kB
Inactive(file):    27520 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
SwapTotal:       2965440 kB
SwapFree:        2965440 kB
Dirty:              1152 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:         31424 kB
Mapped:            17152 kB
Shmem:             14528 kB
Slab:              37184 kB
SReclaimable:       8064 kB
SUnreclaim:        29120 kB
KernelStack:        1616 kB
PageTables:         1088 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:     3989760 kB
Committed_AS:      74880 kB
VmallocTotal:   8589934592 kB
VmallocUsed:       15616 kB
VmallocChunk:   8589852992 kB
HardwareCorrupted:     0 kB
AnonHugePages:         0 kB
HugePages_Total:       0
HugePages_Free:        0
HugePages_Rsvd:        0
HugePages_Surp:        0
Hugepagesize:      16384 kB

and dmesg

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[    0.000000] Memory: 1899264K/2097152K available (7360K kernel code, 1792K rwdata, 1840K rodata, 960K init, 2071K bss, 197888K reserved)

and for the curious /proc/cpuinfo

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processor       : 0
cpu             : POWER6 (architected), altivec supported
clock           : 4204.000000MHz
revision        : 3.1 (pvr 003e 0301)

processor       : 1
cpu             : POWER6 (architected), altivec supported
clock           : 4204.000000MHz
revision        : 3.1 (pvr 003e 0301)

processor       : 2
cpu             : POWER6 (architected), altivec supported
clock           : 4204.000000MHz
revision        : 3.1 (pvr 003e 0301)

processor       : 3
cpu             : POWER6 (architected), altivec supported
clock           : 4204.000000MHz
revision        : 3.1 (pvr 003e 0301)

timebase        : 512000000
platform        : pSeries
model           : IBM,8203-E4A
machine         : CHRP IBM,8203-E4A

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