Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 06 Sep 1999 13:26:56 -0300 | From | Marcelo de Paula Bezerra <> | Subject | Re: Automatic memory size detection |
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probably 2.2.12 will be no good either, on my system(just upgraded to 128mb) 2.2.12 does not find more than 64mb, but 2.3.16 find it all without need for mem=128M on kernel command line.
Harald Koenig wrote: > > On Sep 06, Massoud Asgharifard wrote: > > > Hi, > > Can any one kindly explain why automatic memory size detection works on > > some motherboards, and refuses to do so on some others? > > because some BIOS versions are more broken than others in respect of > reporting the amount of RAM being installed. > > > I've a Gigabyte 5AA, with AMD-K6/2-366MHz, with 128M ram, and I've change > > the /etc/lilo.conf when I add or remove ram from the system. > > you don't mention which Linux kernel version you're using. > old versions may not handle broken BIOSes as gracefully as more recent > Linux versions do. maybe you should try 2.2.12 instead of 2.0.x ?!
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