Re: Memory problem....
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998 hospedales@wow.net wrote:
: I just converted yet another MS-dissatisified friend to Debian
: yesterday. However, when we were installing debian on his box, a P-100
: w/ 32MB. freemem returns only 15MB or so free. Implying that debian
: only found the first 16MB.
: I've heard about this before, but only w/ 128MB systems, and debian
: finds the 64MB on my box fine. Any ideas?
Hmm ... is it a Compaq?
Have you tried booting with a "linux mem=32M" line? I've seen several
systems, mostly Compaqs, which took great pleasure in announcing only
the first 16 MB of RAM. If the mem option solves the problem just add
it to your LILO append line.
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