On Mon, 6 May 1996, Richard van Hees wrote:
> First of all, linux shoudn't behave like this.
I know, my friend which gave me the memory pulled it out of his linux
system (of 40meg) and gave it to me. It worked fine on his 1.2.13 elf
release.
> But I guess that you have your kernel configured with CONFIG_MAX_16M?
Nope, I checked this immediately when it stuffed up, there's absolutely no
reason for me to ever set this, as I've always had at least 16meg with
linux.
> By the way do you have another OS to test your new memory?
I run dos and netware, and have tested it with dos, works fine.
> and what did the BIOS say?
The bios recognised the ram, it checked the ram, himem.sys checked it,
everything was a ok on other platforms, when booting into linux, it kept
spitting the dummy.
It's a shame also, as I want 32 meg in this machine.
MIC!!!
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