On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Peter Iannarelli wrote:
: Hello:
:
: I have a 90 MHz Compaq with 32 megs of memory.
: Its running 1.3.1. For some reason Linux only sees
: 16 megs of memory. Does anyone know why and
: how I can fix this ?
Compaqs are notoriously stupid when it comes to proprietary BIOS
routines and the like. One common side effect is that Linux will
generally only autodetect the first 16 MB of RAM on a Compaq (I've seen
this problem even on new ProLinea servers!)
The solution (if this is the problem) is quite simple - pass a
"mem=XXMB" line to the kernel at boot. If that solves the problem, add
an append line to lilo (and rerun lilo).
Here's my append line on my ProLinea:
append="mem=96M"
Hope this helps!
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