Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:57:02 +0100 (MET) | From | Mikael Pettersson <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] 2.4.1 Detects 64 MB RAM, actual 192MB |
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 23:25:22 -0500, Adam Schrotenboer wrote:
>2.4.1 detects 64 MB, but 2.4.0 detects 192 (Maybe 191, not sure). >... >Linux version 2.4.1 (root@tabriel) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #9 Tue Jan 30 15:35:21 EST 2001 >BIOS-provided physical RAM map: > BIOS-88: 000000000009f000 @ 0000000000000000 (usable) > BIOS-88: 0000000003ff0000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable) >On node 0 totalpages: 16624 >... >CPU: AMD-K7(tm) Processor stepping 02 >... >BIOS Vendor: Award Software International, Inc. >BIOS Version: 6.0 PG >BIOS Release: 11/23/99 >Board Vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD. >Board Name: MS-6167 (AMD751). >Board Version: 1.X.
Why on earth is this fairly recent motherboard using BIOS-88 to report available memory? I would have expected E820 here. Can you send the dmesg output from 2.4.0 and/or 2.2.19pre7?
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