How to make your kernel detect >64MB RAM

[Torsten Landschoff <t.landschoff@gmx.net>]

On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 12:31:40PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Mark!

> My friend's laptop has 96M of RAM installed.  When it boots, it has a
> message saying that 96M is installed and BIOS setup shows the same thing,
> but when I run "free" under Debian it comes up with:
> 
> # free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:         63384      61728       1656      25776      30420      16084
> -/+ buffers/cache:      15224      48160
> Swap:        64508        344      64164

My suggestion: Get a 2.0.36(pre)-Kernel! It has a patch to detect memory using
a new BIOS-Call which support more than 64MB. 

cu
	Torsten

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