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Re: Linux RAM Problem




Well, that fixed it.....   so all i have to do is add that line in the
kernel?

Thanks again!

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Richard H. Fifarek wrote:

> 
> 
> 	Hmm... when booting up, try typing linux mem=128M at the LILO
> prompt.  IF that fixes it, then I would suggest recompling a new kernel
> from scratch and installing it over the default kernel from Mandrake.
> 
> On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Tom wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I am running Linux Mandrake 6.0
> > Originally I was running it on a Standard Pentium 200 MMX with 96 megs of
> > RAM, and it recognized all of my RAM without any troubles.
> > 
> > I just upgraded my machine to a PII 400 with 64 MB of PC100 RAM, using a
> > Super Micro Mainboard. I reinstalled Linux as some problems had resulted
> > after the upgrade.
> > Once it was all installed and back to normal, Linux was reporting that
> > I had 63 MB of RAM with the original 64.. after installing this new 64 MB
> > chip, it said I had 65 MB of RAM instead of 128. 
> > When I boot into windows, windows recognizes it as being 128 MB of RAM, as
> > does the BIOS, and no problems or errors are reported.
> > 
> > I even tried other RAM chips thinking maybe something was wrong with this
> > RAM, but still had the same result.
> > 
> > The Motherboard is said to be FUlly Linux Compliant, and works well, with
> > the
> > exception of the RAM problem.
> > 
> > Any help would be much appreciated!
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Tom 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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