Subject: Re: >64megs
From: Jim Gribbin (jgribbin@alaska.net)
Date: Sun Oct 21 2001 - 22:58:01 AKDT
In my limited experience, this seems to be a problem with the bios
mis-reporting the memory amount. Apperantly Linux asks the bios how much
memory the system has and takes it at it's word. ABIT has had more then
one bios update to fix this.
Jim
On Sat, 2001-10-20 at 00:03, bryan@ak.net wrote:
>
> Does the kernel (2.2.19 specifically) really require an
> append="mem=..." line with more than 64 megs of ram? And if
> so, on which architectures?
>
> My alpha has been running with 128 megs, and no append= line
> ever since I got it. I just bumped my PC from 64 to 160, and
> tried it out with no append= line, and it works fine.
>
> The line doesn't seem to be neccessary. Is it more a matter
> of avoiding small problems? Or is it obsolete?
>
> --
> Bryan Medsker
> bryan@ak.net
>
>
>
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