Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Sep 1998 14:58:49 -0400 | From | Gary Simmons <> | Subject | Re: Physical memory versus detected memory |
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Kenneth Stephen wrote: > > Hi, > > I hav a Pentium 60 machine in the office which has 32MB RAM > plugged into it. At bootup time, the BIOS counts all the way upto > 32MB. But linux (2.0.34 :RedHat) detects only 14 MB memory. I tried > loading NT on it, and it also only detects 14MB memory. What could be > the problem here? > > Kenneth >
Just off the top of my head. You might want to check in the BIOS and disable an option called "Memory Hole at 15/16MB" or something similar. I believe reading somewhere that the memory hole confuses Linux (and I suppose NT as well) sometimes.
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