On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 10:16:17PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have 7.1 installed on a couple of machines with 1.5 GB and they show up
> > as 1 GB although I said I have 1.5 (it autodetected 968M) during
> > installation.
> >
> > Any help? (other than appending line mem= to the kernel which I alredy did
> > and dosn't work).
> >
> > Is it that the default kernel dosn't support more than 1GB? what do I have
> > to get it to recognize more than 1GB in that case?
> >
> > pleas help.. this is urgent!
> >
> I think I recall reading that linux needs special "hacks"
> to use memory above 1 GB. You'll likely need to recompile
> the kernel with some patches.
> Good luck!
> John
SuSE and another company (I have forgotten who) put together patches that
will allow Linux to use up to 3.5 GB. I have a press release from SuSE
somewhere, or you can find it on SuSE's web site. It is fairly new, and
may not be in your kernel's source.
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