Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Feb 1998 10:55:41 +0100 (MET) | From | Leif Erlingsson <> | Subject | Apologies [Re: How detect 48MB RAM on a Compaq Prolinea 590 ?] |
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While it is true that a Compaq Prolinea 590 does not by itself detect more than 16 MB RAM, I have still made a fool of myself.
I was dead sure I had read in some HOWTO, README or manual page that in this special case,
append = "mem=0x2F2E000"
the "0x" must be omitted (NOT TRUE!). I cannot explain where I read or believed I had read this (though probably I was reading the BootPrompt-HOWTO). I have searched my filesystem, but not found it, so I guess my brain must have played an evil trick on me. :-(
Paul Wilkins <paulw@monsterboard.com.au> asked about the spaces, so I'll comment on that: It is OK to have space after append but not after mem. append = "mem=0x2F2E000" is OK. I am using it now.
This value reserves some memory so Linux don't use it in case the machine is using it for BIOS cacheing or whatever (from the BootPrompt-HOWTO, where I read this originally).
Several people have told me to use
append = "mem=48M"
instead, and this is also in the BootPrompt-HOWTO, so I'm sure it works fine too.
So, anyway, my apologies to everyone for taking up your very valuable time with my misunderstanding! (But it *would* be nice if the RAM could be autodetected...)
Thanks!
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