Re: Upgrading to hamm

[Jeff Noxon <jeff@planetfall.com>]

On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 09:16:57PM +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote:
> >> I have 2.0.33 running on an ABIT IT5H 2.0, K6-233 w/ 64 megs of RAM.
> 
>  I think that motherboard is based on the TX chipset, which does not cache 
>  any memory over 64mb. So adding more than that is most propably worse. 

It's based on the HX chipset, and can use/cache up to 512M.  I would never
purchase a TX chipset board.  8)

>  Btw. you did tell the kernel to look for all the memory? There just might be
>  some misunderstanding between kernel/bios/chipset about how much memory
>  there actually is.

I added 'append "mem=128"' to lilo.conf.  I guess I could try 127.  Linux
saw the memory, which explains the massive performance increase.

Thanks

Jeff


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