On 15/07/00 23:43 +0530, Narain CR spewed into the LI bitstream:
>Does this parameter have to be passed everytime to the OS (when the mem
>amt is changed, or just when the nett mem goes > 64MB).
Only when RAM goes over 64 megs.
>In fact I had 40MB on my m/c and added another (free) 8MB. I don't face
>any pblms, is it that linux is using only 40MB still??? Will check out
>tonight (later - tomorrow early morning that is...) though...
It will be autodetected till 64 megs. See the last para I posted (quoted
below). Problems are mostly with boxes having older BIOS.
>On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>2.2.x does support autodetection of > 64 megs RAM, but maybe his BIOS
>doesn't support it (calls > 64 M were not supported) ...
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