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Re: System sees only 65M of memory



On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 07:09:08PM +0200, Jason Quigley wrote:

> Does your bios have the setting memory hole at 64M activated?  I'm not sure if 
> that's the exact option.  I only vaguely remember something like that as I 
> haven't rebooted for such a long time - and sorry - I refuse to for
> this!  ;-)

Wrong... the option is Memory hole at 15-16 Mb ;-)
So, I think this can't be the problem.

Have you configured your kernel to support Athlon and MMTR ?

Bye!

> 
> Cheers,
> Jason.
> 
> --On Monday, September 11, 2000 9:20 -0700 Erik <journey@jps.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:56:52PM -0600, Art Edwards wrote:
> >> I just purchased two Athalon-based systems, each with 768M of ram.
> >> However, under debian (potato runnin kernel 2.2.17) the OS sees only 65
> >> M of memory. I have tried to use the append command
> >>
> >> mem=768M
> >>
> >> but it still sees only 65 M?
> >>
> >> Does anyone have any ideas?
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Arthur H. Edwards
> >> 712 Valencia Dr. NE
> >> Abq. NM 87108
> >>
> >> (505) 256-0834
> >>
> >
> > I haven't tried on my athlon, but i've heard that grub will autodetect
> > your ram correctly, and pass the info to the kernel.  Still doesn't help
> > with the fact that mem= isn't working for you, but its a start :)
> >
> > Erik Bernhardson
> > journey@jps.net
> > --
> > It is better to remain silent and be considered a fool, than to speak and
> > remove all doubt.
> >	 -- Abraham Lincoln
> 
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