On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, John Murray Boyle wrote:
> I recently upgraded my memory from 256MB to 1GB, now linux only sees
> 896MB.
Quick question: does you BIOS find all the memory when you power on the
computer? Some mobos don't like certain memory combinations (but I think
that's now in the past).
BTW, 896 = 128 + 256 + 512. Do you recognise these numbers as significant
(e.g. DIMM module sizes).
> I am using Mandrake 8.0 and I have tried inserting the line
> append="mem=1024M" into lilo, but to no avail.
>
> I tried installing red hat and this sees all the memory, but I prefer
> Mandrake.
This is a kernel related problem. Installing a new distro shouldn't effect
whether it finds the memory or not (famous last words ...). You should be
able to boot of the install image for RedHat and switch VT (via Alt-F2)
and type "cat /proc/meminfo" for what a RedHat distro will think of your
memory (install kernel != distro kernel, but usually near enough).
Cheers,
Paul.
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