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Re: Debian Memory Limit at 64MB ?



On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Markus Diesmann wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> we have Debian installed on a PC with 256MB.
> However it seems, that Debian uses only 64MB
> (according to top and free).
> Is there a limit at 64MB? Do we need to set a special
> kernel option?

Markus this is a problem with some BIOS's that they only report the 1st
64mb of ram.  What you have to do is either type linux mem=256MB at the
lilo boo: prompt or add the line append mem=256MB to your lilo.conf file.


Shaya


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