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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