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DateFri, 16 Oct 1998 09:56:25 -0700
FromThomas Davis <>
SubjectRe: Breaking the 64MB barrier
"B. James Phillippe" wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
>         I am aware that passing the "mem=XX" option in LILO overcomes this
> problem; this is irrelevant because it has nothing to do with what I'm
> about to ask (for you rapid-reply "RTFM" people).
> 
>         The question is this: I had a debate with someone about the 64MB+
> memory issue with Linux.  Their position is that it's a bug in the kernel,
> and mine was that it was an x86 BIOS limitation.  I have two questions:
> 1.) who's right?  

a) problem is solved already; only 2.0.35 and lower can't correctly
detect > 64M of RAM
> 2.) How is it that Microsoft is able to deal with this
> without a bootloader option, and we can't?  

this simply is not true;  I have a friend with a system board that has
128M of ram on, and WinNT 4.0 (with all the patches) only recongizes
64M.

MS's reply?

It's the bios, or the system board.  Upgrade!

Thomas

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