On 1/6/14, Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> wrote: >> > That's a pretty ancient chip set, and it looks like your motherboard > won't hold more than 2G. I expect the memory hole is NOT your problem, > as it would restrict you from seeing the top 1G of 4G, I don't think it > would keep you from using all 1G, but then again, I'm just a little > foggy on whether there are situations where the bottom of your address > space would be shadowed. > > I'd follow Scott Ferguson's advice, try to get Knoppix to boot and then > see what dmidecode tells you. Or maybe burn a copy of SystemRescueCD > (http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage) and see if you can > boot from it, then start poking around with some of the tools on it > (e.g., hwreport). > > Miles Fidelman > >
I have some good and bad news to report I plug a disk that has Windows 98 to update BIOS the disk happen to have Linux, so I boot it and it boots OK, it's woody and use kernel 2.2 I run the top command , it correctly reports about 1 G memory and I also starts X window bad news is woody no longer has practical use for me Can I run dmidecode from woody? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cab-gxzck7julaajwyhs-jvcy685tufh--3eqch4no0swx1r...@mail.gmail.com
