David,
I have to dig the documents at home before I can give a
definite answer to your question.
>From my memory, the doc says you have to put a line which
tells the kernel the ram should be the total amount of ram
installed less the
amount of memory shared, despite the fact that BIOS is
already reporting
the correct value.
Auyeung
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> Ok.... I booted up and checked the output of free. It
shows 190972
> kilobytes of total memory and I've got 192 megs in the
system so some
> of the system memory is already trimmed off. How would I
know how
> much memory I should tell the kernel that I have?
>
> David Aikema
>
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> > Nope... haven't got that. Hmn.... I've been seeing a
shared memory
> > size msg from the bios on bootup.... maybe I'll have to
drop that
> > amount of ram and try again.
> >
> > David Aikema
> >
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> > > Do you have a mem=xxxxM as your kernel boot parameter?
> > > The Intel document suggests so.
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