Ok then I am stil on 4.2 but kept up on patches.
I have 96 meg mem and the kernal sees it all with out changing a thing.
Been watching this discussion, Guess I got lucky
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Glynn Clements wrote:
>
> Mauro Quartini wrote:
>
> > I'm running Linux RH 5.1 on a PC box.
> > I installed 128MB, but Linux (2.0.34) recognize only 64MB (i check via "cat
> > /proc/meminfo").
> > I tried to change settings in BIOS mother board, but i did never be able to
> > go over 64MB.
> > (changing settings in BIOS, one time, Linux was able to 'see' only 16MB of
> > 128MB).
>
> You need to add `mem=128M' to the boot command (e.g. via an `append='
> line in lilo.conf).
>
> The BIOS reports the number of Kb available as a 16-bit number, so it
> can't report more than 64Mb; you have to specify the amount of memory
> manually.
>
> > P.S.:
> > I changed this parameter in my kernel and i recompiled it:
> > /usr/include/asm/shmparam.h
> > shmparam.h:#define SHMMAX 0x3000000 /* max shared seg size (bytes) *
>
> This is completely unrelated.
>
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