On Aug 7, Markus Diesmann wrote
> we have Debian installed on a PC with 256MB.  However it seems, that
> Debian uses only 64MB (according to top and free).  Is there a limit at
> 64MB? Do we need to set a special kernel option?

See /usr/doc/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO.gz

For PCs, there appears to be no safe way to detect more than 64Mb of memory.
You have to specify "mem=256M" as a kernel option (e.g. through LILO's
"append" command).

HTH,
Ray
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