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From: "Charlie Brady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jack McCauley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Developers Information e-smith"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 2:50 PM
Subject: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: pppoe problem
>
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Jack McCauley wrote:
>
> > I just tonight installed rc1 as a direct network install from the
> > rawhide directory. The system I installed is an IBM PC750 with an NCR
> > SCSI adapter, a 1gb SCSI HDD, 80mb of memory, two Intel PCI
> > EtherExpress Pro100 NICs and a 200mhz pentium classic processor.
> >
> > The messages file indicates the system is only seeing 64mb of memory.
>
> There may be a BIOS update available for your computer. If so, it may help
> with detecting the full amount of RAM.
>
> > <!--StartFragment-->Jan 30 22:17:59 e-smith kernel: Memory:
> > 63484k/66556k available (1048k kernel code, 412k reserved, 1088k data,
> > 64k init, 0k bigmem)
>
> Failing that, a small modification to /etc/lilo.conf will allow you to
> configure your system to recognise the full RAM. I don't believe that
> there is anything that we can automate to correct that error - if the BIOS
> doesn't provide the correct information, we're stuck with what we find.
No this is standard Linux activity to only see 64MB or RAM, you need to
append mem=xxxM to the command line in lilo. (where xxx is the memory you
want to detect).
I believe you could even do mem=12M if you wanted to test linux in tight
memory configuration, but neve rplayed with that.
Rob.
