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Re: Kernel reports that I have 64MB of RAM instead of 256MB



Hi, Tzafrir!

On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 12:43:56PM +0300, you wrote the following:

> IIRC you generally need to put about 1MB less than what you have
> ("mem=255M" in case of 256 MB), because the bios needs it, or something
> similar. I leave it for the hardware experts here to explain this).

>From my experience it works if you put the full amount.


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