Re: Linux-2.2.x-BUG(?) memmory not detected

From: J . A . Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Date: Sun Nov 12 2000 - 20:24:32 EST


On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 01:43:44 Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just noticed that both 2.2.18pre21 and RedHat-7.0-patched-2.2.16 kernels
> only detect 64Mb out of 192Mb RAM on my Dual Celeron/Intel 440GX chipset
> based workstation. - I haven't tried any other 2.2 kernels on that
> particular PC so maybe this is a general 2.2.x thing.
>
> The setup is one 64Mb SDRAM and one 128Mb SDRAM so it would seem that the
> 128Mb one is not detected at all.
>
> All 2.3/2.4 kernels I have tried have always detected the full 192Mb RAM.
>

It's a bug, but in the mobo. Some motherboards lie about its installed ram.
2.3+ kernels have a workaround for detection, but in 2.2 you still have
to manually add <append="mem=128M"> in your lilo.conf file.

-- 
Juan Antonio Magallon Lacarta                                 #> cd /pub
mailto:jamagallon@able.es                                     #> more beer

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Nov 15 2000 - 21:00:23 EST