On some kernels the MEM is not detected correctly for some reason, haven't
checked in to why yet....
The easy way to solve this is to add append="mem=128M" in lilo.conf, and
then rerun /sbin/lilo
/Richard
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1024D/E09C3CD1 1999-10-28 Richard Torkar (LINUX) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Andrew J. Pavlis wrote:
> Hello.
> I just finished upgrading my hard-drive (as well as the
> BP6's
> bios) and
> I noticed that my memory isn't reporting correctly.
> It was 384MB, but now it shows up as 64MB. I thought maybe some of you
>
> gurus would be
> able to help me out. I am not sure why the memory is not reporting
> correctly. There
> are MTRR issues when looking through dmesg, it states:
>
> mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent fixed MTRR settings
> mtrr: probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs
>
> Would this be where my problem is? I never noticed this message before
> and check my
> logs occasionally.
>
> Anyone ever experience this problem or know what the possible
> cause/solution would be?
> I didn't change any hardware, other than the new hard drive, and before
> I
> set it up,
> everything looked fine in the memory department. The only real thing I
> did was create
> my new partitions (/ /home /tmp /usr /usr/local /opt /var and new SWAP),
>
> and copied the
> files over after mounting the appropriate filesystems. I did have to
> create a new
> /proc, but would that be an issue? I am completely lost on this one and
>
> need help!!!
> Could this be some sort of problem with the New BP6 BIOS upgrade that
> came
> out last
> November???
>
> Thanks for any help!!!
> -Andy
>
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