Re: How to setup Linux server use > 64MB RAM

Allen Brown (abrown@cv.hp.com)
Thu, 26 Aug 1999 10:46:01 -0700

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>> linux is said to be able to view all memory by itself.
>> sadly, there are bogus motherboards that prevent him to view more than
>> 64Mb.
>> look at man bootparams : you may append either "mem=128m" or
>> "mem=0x8000000"

> That should only be necessary if you are using a 2.0.x kernel, the
> 2.[123].x kernels should not require that (I don't think it'll hurt).

Including "mem=80M" made my Hitachi 8560 laptop unbootable under
kernel 2.2.5. It worked fine under 2.0.36. Suprised me.
-- Allen Brown

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