Re: 512 Mb DIMM not detected by the BIOS!

From: Kilobug (kilobug@freesurf.fr)
Date: Sat Feb 02 2002 - 13:18:55 EST

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Benny Sjostrand wrote:
> Hello everyone!

Hello

> so my question to you "kernel-gurus", is there any posibility
> to configure the Linux kernel to bypass the BIOS and actually
> use my 512MB ?

You don't need to be a "kernel-guru" to answer this question.
The list of kernel boot parameters is in
linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
There, you can find:

  mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] force use of a specific amount of
                  memory; to be used when the kernel is not able
                  to see the whole system memory or for test.

So append mem=512M in your kernel command line. If you use lilo add
append = "mem=512M" in your lilo.conf file (and rerun lilo).

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