On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:21:31PM -0700, Larry Fletcher wrote: > On Aug 28, 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:22:02PM -0400, dman wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:01:29PM -0400, Robert Mosher wrote: > > > | I recently started using Loadlin as my boot manager, and I noticed that > > > | Linux only sees 64MB of my 256MB of RAM. Is there a way I can fix this? > > > > > > You could add a "mem=256" argument to the kernel. I don't remember > > > how this would be done with loadlin. > > > > Better try "mem=256M" instead ... 256 bytes of memory would be painful. > > Simply place this argument after the kernel image name on the loadlin > > line. > > I just bought a new computer with 256MB of RAM and using Loadlin all > of it showed up without adding "mem=256m". So I don't think Loadlin > is the problem unless it's an old version. Nobody's saying loadlin is the problem. The problem is that some BIOS chipsets don't allow the kernel to detect more than 64MB of RAM (Compaqs are famous for this). When this happens, you need to pass a boot parameter to the kernel telling it how much RAM you have (or, you can just run linux with 64MB ... seems a bit of a waste if you've paid for a bunch of RAM though). I've owned systems that needed the mem= argument, and systems that didn't. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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