Re: Any reason 128MB is not picked up?

Richard A. Soderberg (richards@dnsi.net)
Tue, 5 Aug 1997 11:08:07 -0700 (PDT)

Well, a hackaround is to put the line 'append = "128M"' in your
lilo.conf, or boot the kernel with LILO: zImage mem=128M. The memory
detection scheme is still in progress... 2.1.48 seems to have a much more
robust scheme that has some incompatibilities with loadlin..

Richard

On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Dale Amon as Operator wrote:

> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 97 13:56:28 +0100
> From: Dale Amon as Operator <root@starbase1.gpl.net>
> Reply-To: amon@galileo.gpl.com
> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Any reason 128MB is not picked up?
>
> Does the kernel support more than 64MB? We have a couple
> machines with 128MB and I'd not clicked on until just
> now when checking out a new server that although the bios
> shows the proper number on boot, if you later look in
> /proc/meminfo you only see 64M.
>
> 2.0.28 and 2.0.29 and 2.0.30.
>
> I'm not all that familiar with Intel, I'm mostly a 68K NeXT
> type.
>
> Ideas?
>

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