Re: Linux does not see my 32 Meg RAM

Jari Soderholm (kernel@cdlinux01.ntc.nokia.com)
Sun, 27 Oct 1996 12:03:31 +0200 (EET)

> > > Machine has 32 meg RAM but poor Linux for some reason
> > > thinks that there is only 16 MB.
> >
> > There is two short-term solutions :
> > * add a line in your /etc/lilo.conf, that states :
> > append="mem=32M"
> > * or, get ftp://studio.via.ecp.fr/pub/linux-16M-problem.patch

Well , I tried that patch but it did not help, Linux still
sees on only 16 MB.

But I wonder what is the difference so that windows 95 can
find all memery without problems.

And this laptop is completely new model from compaq (120 Pentium)
so it probably does not have very old bios.

Jari