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Re: RedHat bugs???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Raymond Popowich)
Tue Nov 10 20:00:18 1998
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 19:32:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Raymond Popowich <popowich@acsu.buffalo.edu>
To: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com, Leo <leonardo@dinamicmultimedia.es>
In-Reply-To: <3648AAEB.94BEC1E9@iname.com>
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There is a setting in your bios to set a memory hole between 15-16MB.
You do not want this hole enabled. Also, 2.0.36 detects all 192MB of
my memory without a "mem=" statement in my lilo.conf...
On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Jan Carlson wrote:
>> 1. Could the 16MB memory problem be something set in the
>> computer's BIOS? Some did have that feature.
>>
>> "Hole in memory at 16mb"
>> "Memory limited to 16MB"
>>
>> Perhaps a setting NT knows to ignore, and Linux doesn't yet.
>>
>> 2. RH5.2 comes with kernel 2.0.36 which handles memory a
>> little differently. It no longer needs to be 'told' to use all the
>> memory when there is more than 64MB in the machine.
>> Maybe this kernel will magically fix your 16mb problem, or
>> shed light on it.
>>
>> 3. You probably tried append="mem=64M" in
>> /etc/lilo.conf
>> did it have an effect?
>>
>> Trying to help...
>>
>> --
>>
>> Jan Carlson
>> janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
>> Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
>>
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Raymond Popowich
popowich@acsu.buffalo.edu
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