On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Pete Walters wrote:
> I read the SMP FAQ, and I couldn't find anything about this, so I thought
> I'd try here for help. I'm fairly new at this so I'll try my best not to
> sound like an idiot. =)
>
> I just built an SMP box with the following:
>
> 2 celeron 300A PPGa
> 2 MSI slot1 adapters
> 1 128 MB DIMM
> SuperMicro P6DBE board
> ....
>
> Here's the probelm - I installed SUSE 6.1 and only 64MB of memory is
> reported by top and /proc/meminfo. I recompiled the kernel for SMP and
> both processors and everything else seems to be running correctly, I just
> can't get it to see all 128MB of memory.
What kernel? 2.0 kernels need the append="mem=128M" in lilo.conf. 2.2
doesn't...
>
> Another interesting note - when I upgraded the machine, I took a hard
> drive that already had SUSE 6.1 installed on it out of an old machine
> (Pentium 200) to use on my new one. When I booted it up, it seen all 128MB
> of memory.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> thanks
> pete
>
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