Re: lost memory on a 4GB amd64

[Andi Kleen]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:15:22PM +1000, Sergei Haller wrote:
> I am sure you did read the rest of my mail, didn't you? I mean the part 

I did.

> where I describe that there is an option in the BIOS for that but the 
> kernel crashes if I enable it.

It means the memory was not correct configured. If you don't trust the kernel
you can use memtest86 to confirm it.

> If it is still a problem of the BIOS, could you please be more specific 
> about what exactly is the problem with the BIOS?

That it doesn't supply usable memory to the kernel with that option.

-Andi
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