Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 1 Dec 1996 17:23:08 -0500 (EST) | From | Vampy <> | Subject | Re: Redux: Getting >16MB on Compaqs |
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I have my linux running on a compaq computer with 48M of mem. I used to have problem detecting the mem above 16M. Add "append="MEM=48M"" to my lilo solve the problem. Did you re-run lilo after you have changed the lilo.conf? It could be the problem if you did not re-run lilo after the config had been change. Good Luck!!!
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On Sun, 1 Dec 1996, Bhaskar Manda wrote:
> > > bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk wrote: > >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 amount of memory > >present, and if not, you can get a utility from compaq if you can't do > >this. > > I have tried the first two solutions, linux still crashes. I have 20MB > on a Compaq LTE Lite 4/25E. Normally Linux sees 16256k, when I use the > patch mentioned above, Linux sees 16384k, but crashes. I don't know if > it's a memory hole problem because the person who suggested that said > that the hole is below 16MB, and linux can see and use upto 16MB without > problems. > > I was wondering if anyone had any other things to try, or if the memory > detection is going to change to something like that which DOS uses, or if > anyone has gotten the utility that makes the BIOS report the entire memory > (my BIOS setup doesn't have an option to set this up). > > Thanks, > -bhaskar >
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