Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 26 Oct 1996 22:11:09 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: Linux does not see my 32 Meg RAM |
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On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Michel LESPINASSE wrote:
> 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 >
Third short term solution: Some compaq bios's have an option to tell the real ammount of memory present, and if not, you can get a utility from compaq if you can't do this.
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