Re: Unable to address 1GB RAM in 2.4.19 or later

From: Zwane Mwaikambo
Date: Thu Dec 04 2003 - 17:43:34 EST


On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Jason Walker wrote:
> >> Both are SMP kernels. The hardware is a Compaq Proliant 5000R, quad pentium pro
> >> 200mhz (256k cache models).
> >> Any thoughts on this? Is there any other information needed to address this
> >> issue? Please let me know what I can do to assist in correcting this bug.
>
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 05:21:14PM -0500, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> > You are using mem= what happens without it? I wonder if mem= is broken
> > again.
>
> Both of the BIOS-88 tables match; for some reason 2.4.18 ignored the
> fact it was only reporting 16MB. It should see an e820...

I think his box may be too old for an e820 and BIOS-88 only does 0-64Mb
or so.
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