Re: cyrix detection still a bit porked in 2.2.0-pre1

Brian Gerst (bgerst@quark.vpplus.com)
Tue, 29 Dec 1998 11:33:27 -0500

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Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > I did all exactly as the guidance of the README. I seemed that
> > all had passed the configuration, compilation and the installation.
> > However, when I restart my computer (Pentium II-300, Memory=256M),
> > I found that there are two problems remained as follows:
> >
> > (1) The usable maxmum Memory is not 256M, but 64M.
>
> Meaning you need to pass "mem=256M" to the boot command line to make it
> see all of RAM ?

Isn't 2.1.x supposed to auto detect > 64MB RAM? I know 2.0.36 can.

Brian Gerst

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