Hello to all!
Brian Hall wrote:
>
> I don't believe this is a kernel problem. I had a similar experience with the
> 2.2.13 kernel when I flashed my Abit BH6 v1.1 BIOS to the latest image. After
> eliminating the other possiblities (I had added more RAM at the same time), I
> flashed back to the original image and all the RAM was detected automatically
> again. I am a little mystified as to the mechanism, but I was sufficiently
> careful in my troubleshooting to believe the BIOS is the problem, and your note
> confirms this.
>
I did a BIOS update from orig. version (don't know the version, but the
date was 06/08/99) to NJ last week and no other change, so it was
obvious to me
that _only_ the different BIOS could be the reason linux (all kernels -
2.0.36,
2.2.5, 2.2.10, 2.2.12 & 2.2.13 - from all installed systems ) detected
only 64
of 288 MB. Before, I thought all the guys reporting these things with
fairly modern
boards were hallucinating or something, as I never had such probs with
my 2
"outdated" Gigabyte HX boards since 2.0.32 !
I guess the BIOS mem. detection routines were changed in a
"non-standard" way
by Award and/or Abit - so my decision was to return to the state before,
as I
haven't (yet) encountered really _serious_ problems neither with the
board as a
whole nor with a Seagate 20G HD on the HPT 366 (prim. master) - only
somewhat
long (recovery) pauses when tranferring lots of files (not accompanied
by syslog
entries, however). So the reason I gave the NJ BIOS a try was the hope
for an
improved HPT366 BIOS, but I preferred the correct RAM detection to
that...
> I'd recommend you send a note to Abit telling them to undo whatever change
> they've made to RAM detection/initialization for all their most recent BIOSes.
>
> On 13-Jan-2000 Aaron Longfield wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > I upgraded to 2.2.14 and the kernel doesn't find all my memory anymore.
> > I have 128M on an Abit BX6r2 motherboard using the latest BIOS (bxrnw).
> > The BIOS reports the full 128M, but Linux only finds 64M. If I pass the
> > kernel "mem=128M" it gets all my RAM though. My kernel config is
> > attached. Everything was fine on 2.2.13, and other boxes I have on 2.2.14
> > all the memory is found (also 128M machines, different motherboards
> > though).
> >
> > -Aaron Longfield
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
CU
Juergen
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