[plug]RAM

[Beau Kuiper]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Christian wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 06:35:59AM +0000, Oliver White wrote:
> > Beau Kuiper wrote:
> > 
> > > > The BIOS detects the 128 meg but when linux come to the login prompt it
> > > > says it only has 64.
> > >
> > > try the boot option ram=128M
> > 
> > funny... I don't have that option set, and my system detects all 128MB.
> 
> Yeah, me either (on several different systems).  It used to be a problem
> with 2.0.x kernels that they couldn't detect more than 64MB of RAM but I
> thought it was fixed... my guess would be that this person has a broken
> BIOS of some sort.

Probably, 2.2.x uses a new BIOS api to read memory size. If the api is not
defined by a particular BIOS, or it is buggy, memory cannot be dectected
correctly.

Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au