[95515] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Need help for figuring out missing memory
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Mon Oct 19 08:42:11 1998
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 13:42:57 +0100
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@iname.com>
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In-Reply-To: <000a01bdfa64$29e92220$0146130f@philip_chan>; from Philip Chan on Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 02:54:32PM +0800
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Philip Chan writes:
> Thanks for your help Kevin.
>
> Just one more question, what is the rational behind
> for not letting the kernel to detect the amount of
> existing physical memory?
If I remember correctly, it's a problem with the combination of BIOS and
kernel, i.e. for some reason, the Linux kernel can not easily determine the
memory size above 64MB. Hopefully, somebody can fill in some more technical
details here.
Thomas
P.S.: Please trim your quotes when answering a mail!
P.P.S.: I'd recommend that you familiarise yourself with the RedHat FAQ
(http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/RedHat-FAQ/)
and the RedHat User FAQ (http://www.best.com/~aturner/RedHat-FAQ/)
as your original question was a very frequently asked question and
could have been answered right away with these FAQs.
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