Chris Slater-Walker wrote:
> This seems to be a common problem; I have experienced it myself. I think it
> may be a problem with certain BIOSes not reporting memory correctly to the
> OS, but that's just a guess.
>
Yes you are right. I have just upgraded, from a Epox to a Abit board, and have
now problems with the RAM detection. I have tried to upgrade the BIOS, and
then it detects my 256 Mb RAM, but is unable to boot into Windoze - my
daughter won't accept that.
>
> Anyway, one way of fixing it with Grub which I use is to edit the file
> /boot/grub/menu.lst
>
> In the file you will see something like:
>
> title linux
> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-secure root=dev/hda1 ide1=0xfff0,0xffe4
> ide2=0xffa8,0xffe0
>
> title linux-up
> kernel.....
>
> title failsafe
> kernel....
>
> So at the end of each line starting "kernel" add this: mem=256M
>
> You should find that Linux sees all your memory.
>
I will try that
>
> Chris Slater-Walker
>
Thanks Mogens J�ger
