Re: RAM Problem

From: Linux Developer (vkslinuxkernel@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 13 2000 - 16:36:35 EST


Well, we've got almost a dozen Dell-boxes in our office that have 128M, but
kernels below, as far as I remember, 2.3.15 find only 14 megs (I am not
quite sure why 14). *None* of the stable 2.2.x kernels work properly

good luck,

Vlad Krupin

>From: "Daniel Zeaiter" <daniel@academytiles.com.au>
>To: <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>, "Khimenko Victor"
><khim@sch57.msk.ru>
>Subject: Re: RAM Problem
>Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:41:51 +1100
>
>I am not at my Linux box now but I will try what you said.
>
>However I don't see why my mboard wouldn't detect more than than 64 MB
>RAM?!
>I use an Aopen AX6BC Pro II (Millenium Edition :-) motherboard. Just
>released a month ago. The BIOS mem test detects all the memory, and Windows
>98 sees all the memory. Do you have any further suggestions?
>
>Thanks for your help,
>Daniel.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Khimenko Victor <khim@sch57.msk.ru>
>To: daniel@academytiles.com.au <daniel@academytiles.com.au>;
>linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
>Date: Wednesday, 12 January 2000 14:21
>Subject: Re: RAM Problem
>
>
> >In <387B99D8.6EE26EDB@academytiles.com.au> Daniel Zeaiter
>(daniel@academytiles.com.au) wrote:
> >> Hi! I am using kernel 2.2.12 and RH 6.1.
> >
> >> My /proc/meminfo reports about 62.5 MB of physical RAM when I know that
> >> I have 192 MB. It is reporting the swap space correctly, however.
> >
> >> A snapshot of /proc/meminfo is attatched. Any suggestions?
> >
> >Use mem=191M command line parameter for LiLo (or any boot loader you are
> >using). Your BIOS does not support functions needed to detect more then
> >64MiB RAM...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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