Re: passing mem=??? to the kernel

2001-07-05 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:43:24PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: When is it necessary to pass the mem parameter to the kernel? I was under the impression that it should no longer be necessary; that newer kernels would always find whatever memory was available. However, I recently doubled the

Re: passing mem=??? to the kernel

2001-07-05 Thread Matthew Garman
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:43:24PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: When is it necessary to pass the mem parameter to the kernel? I was under the impression that it should no longer be necessary; that newer kernels would always find whatever memory was available. However, I recently doubled the

Re: passing mem=??? to the kernel

2001-07-05 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Noah Meyerhans wrote: When is it necessary to pass the mem parameter to the kernel? I was under the impression that it should no longer be necessary; that newer kernels would always find whatever memory was available. However, I recently doubled the RAM on one of my systems (from 128 to 256

Re: passing mem=??? to the kernel

2001-07-05 Thread Adam Warner
On 04 Jul 2001 23:05:40 -0500, Matthew Garman wrote: What kernel version are you running? It's been a long time since I've had to pass the mem= parameter to my kernel. I think that was necessary in the 2.0.x and younger kernels, but I don't think it's been an issue since 2.2.x (but I'm just

Re: passing mem=??? to the kernel

2001-07-05 Thread Hall Stevenson
...I recently doubled the RAM on one of my systems (from 128 to 256 MB) but the new RAM is not found. Maybe a stupid question, but does your motherboard/BIOS recognize the new memory *first* ?? I've never really seen a good explanation of why the kernel is not always able to find all the

Re: passing mem=??? to the kernel

2001-07-05 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 08:15 a.m. 05/07/01 -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: ...I recently doubled the RAM on one of my systems (from 128 to 256 MB) but the new RAM is not found. I had the same problem on a dual boot machine, The bios thinks there's 300M, but there are only 190M specifying mem=190M is OK BTW

Re: passing mem=??? to the kernel

2001-07-05 Thread Noah Meyerhans
Well, as it turns out, the problem is actually with the hardware. I am not sure exactly what the problem is, as both 128 MB DIMMs are fine (according to a couple hours each under memtest86). But if they're both in the machine at once then it won't even boot reliably. I found that out on about

passing mem=??? to the kernel

2001-07-04 Thread Noah Meyerhans
When is it necessary to pass the mem parameter to the kernel? I was under the impression that it should no longer be necessary; that newer kernels would always find whatever memory was available. However, I recently doubled the RAM on one of my systems (from 128 to 256 MB) but the new RAM is not