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    SubjectRe: 128MB lost... where ?
    On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Giuliano Pochini wrote:

    >
    > Perhaps this is a faq...
    > I have a dual-800 (mb asus, no AGP) with 1GB ram,
    > but according to /proc/meminfo tells I only have
    > 900000KB. I tried "mem=1024" boot parameter without
    > success. How can I get my 128MB back ?
    >

    when you compile your 2.4.x kernel make sure you set the "4G of RAM"
    option, i.e. CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G. If you chose "up to 1G" then it means "up
    to 986M" (or something like that) -- the number in Help is just rounded up
    to confuse the dummy user :)

    Regards,
    Tigran

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