Re: > 64Meg RAM question

[William Heindl <wheindl@mamacass.ucsd.edu>]

Hi, 

Yes, the BIOS does pick up the memory.  This machine dual boots NT,
and NT has no problem seeing all 128Meg.  However, in Linux, at boot
time I just get:


Memory: sized by int13 088h
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fd800
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfd820
pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd880
Probing PCI hardware.
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 297.37 BogoMIPS
Memory: 63580k/66556k available (1144k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1448k data)
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.


..... etc.

Will stepping up to potato (I assume that's what you mean by a 2.2
based kernel) necessarily fix the memory problem?  Also,
how big a headache am I in for in compiling the kernel and pcmcia
services?  I'm a bit of a novice at this Linux system administration
stuff, although I've been a Unix user for years.


Thanks,

Biff


>If you have not yet, now is a good time to move up to a 2.2 based kernel. 
>Beyond that, does your bios see the mem?  Do you see it at boot time?
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