Max A. wrote: hi max, hi folks!
> Before playing with Memory Hole and MTRR settings in your BIOS setup, > I strongly suggest to update your BIOS to the latest version. > See http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2006/06/msg00344.html just to let you and google know: it worked out. i upgraded the bios to version 3.03 (took me 10 floppy disks to find a working one) and activated these settings: - MTRR mode discrete - enable software memory hole - disable hardware memory hole and voila, got me 6144MB of RAM: Memory: 6158992k/8388608k available (2669k kernel code, 131712k reserved, 1001k data, 196k init) disabling the hardware memory hole is mandatory, otherwise the kernel wont boot, probably because it cannot access memory-mapped PCI I/O. thanks again, Raimund -- Die Lösung für effizientes Kundenbeziehungsmanagement. Jetzt informieren: http://www.universal-messenger.de Pinuts media+science GmbH http://www.pinuts.de Dipl.-Inform. Raimund Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] Krausenstr. 9-10 voice : +49 30 59 00 90 322 10117 Berlin fax : +49 30 59 00 90 390 Germany -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
