Re: [Offtopic] Re: 128MB RAM on Linux

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 01:07:54 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Yep, that works fine for you or I, but is pretty useless for a newbie
> > trying to work out why their shiny new Linux box only recognises 64M
> > or RAM. That's why I say it should be in the FAQ.
> >
> > This is getting offtopic for linux-kernel anyway. It's an LDP issue.
>
> And you'll find 2.0.36pre* recognizes > 64Mb of RAM itself for precisely
> the reasons you give

With the new detection method, is it still worth doing the mem=127M thing,
or is what the kernel detects safe to use?

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