Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 26 Oct 1996 18:34:51 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Michel LESPINASSE <> | Subject | Re: Linux does not see my 32 Meg RAM |
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On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Jari Soderholm wrote:
> Machine has 32 meg RAM but poor Linux for some reason > thinks that there is only 16 MB.
This is a known problem, some bioses never report more than 16M of memory. They do this to be compatible with some poorly written 80286 programs :-/
There is two short-term solutions : * add a line in your /etc/lilo.conf, that states : append="mem=32M" * or, get ftp://studio.via.ecp.fr/pub/linux-16M-problem.patch
The long term-solution : We need to make a better memory detection routine for Linux. This was discutted a short time ago on this list.
Michel "Walken" LESPINASSE - Student at Ecole Centrale Paris (France) www Email : walken@via.ecp.fr (o o) Http : www.via.ecp.fr/~walken/ ------oOO--(_)--OOo--------------------------------------------------
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