Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 13 Nov 2000 02:24:32 +0100 | From | "J . A . Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.2.x-BUG(?) memmory not detected |
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On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 01:43:44 Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > Hi, > > Just noticed that both 2.2.18pre21 and RedHat-7.0-patched-2.2.16 kernels > only detect 64Mb out of 192Mb RAM on my Dual Celeron/Intel 440GX chipset > based workstation. - I haven't tried any other 2.2 kernels on that > particular PC so maybe this is a general 2.2.x thing. > > The setup is one 64Mb SDRAM and one 128Mb SDRAM so it would seem that the > 128Mb one is not detected at all. > > All 2.3/2.4 kernels I have tried have always detected the full 192Mb RAM. >
It's a bug, but in the mobo. Some motherboards lie about its installed ram. 2.3+ kernels have a workaround for detection, but in 2.2 you still have to manually add <append="mem=128M"> in your lilo.conf file.
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