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Re: > 64Meg RAM question



This isn't so much a laptop problem as a "some machines" problem.  add
mem=XXm to the kernel in startup.  If using lilo this can be done with the
append line, but I suggest you test it using manual entry first

On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, William Heindl wrote:

> 
> I am running slink on an IBM 560Z with 128Meg of RAM.  Only 64Meg are
> being seen (as evidenced from doing "dmesg").  Now, I have seen in
> various HOWTOs that this is expected, and the solution is to build the
> kernel with "newmem" set.  However, I'm puzzled.  Two guys at my
> office built their systems using the same set of floppies and they see all
> 128Meg in their machines without doing anything special.  The
> difference seems to be that they are not using laptops.  Is this
> something peculiar to the laptop version of the Pentium II?  Is there
> step by step documentation somewhere to help me through the kernel
> build required for this fix?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Biff  
> 
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