On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Eric NOULARD wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 03:59:25PM +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't think this is an SMP problem at all. Linux will normally only see
> > > and ause the first 64 MB of RAM. In order to make it see and use more, you
> > > have to tell it to do so.
> > >
> > > You do that by specifying the additional boot parameter to the kernel:
> > > "mem=<YourMemorySize>"
> >
> > Is it really the case with 2.2.x kernels?
> > I just set up a Bi-PII box with SuSE 6.1 and
> > SMP-recompiled 2.2.10 stock kernel, which seems to recognize
> > all the 256 Mo memory without specifiying "mem=xxx" anywhere?
>
> I have just installed RH6 on a 486/50 with 256 MB of RAM, and without the
> mem=256MB parameter it didn't detect it. So yes, it is the case with 2.2.x
> kernels.
>
> Gordan
>
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There is something wrong with your hardware. We have redhat 6 with 2.2.5
and 2.2.10 running on several machines. None have the lilo mem= option
and all find the entire memory range just fine. My quad xeon has 512mb
and has no problems at all... and my /etc/lilo.conf file has nothing about
mem= in it. This was fixed in 2.1 development kernels and is a part of
2.2...
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