Re: 64Mb RAM maximum with linux?

James R. Leu (jleu@chaos.coredcs.com)
Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:57:52 -0600 (CST)


>
>
> > [Resume: Linux seen 64Mb in place of 96Mb installed]
> >
> > I have a PC with Intel Pentium 150Mhz on an ASUS P24T2P4C (bios 1.7)
> > with 96Mb of RAM (2*32Mb EDO + 2*16Mb non EDO). Video card is Matrox MGA
> > Millenium 4Mb WRAM with X-Inside's Accelerated-X. I have a WDC3100 on
> > IDE primary master and a Philips CD on secondary master. I have also a
> > Sound Blaster AWE32.
> >
> > Bios, DOS and Windows view my 96Mb, but, under Linux 2.1.10 & 2.0.25
> > ....
> >
>
> When you have more then 64Megs of RAM you have to tell linux how much ram
> you have, i forgot what the command is, but it's available...
>
>

Not really kernel related but try append="mem=96M"

Jim

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James R. Leu
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CORE Digital Communication Services
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