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Re: /proc/memnifo



On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Michael Wolman wrote:

> I am having a strange problem.I have 196MB physical memory, when
> I boot up I see it, however under RedHat 6.1 kernal 2.2.14, it is only
> showing me that I have 64MB from /proc/meminfo and from looking at the
> ouput of dmesg.
> 
> Any suggestions how I can get linux to read all my memory ?

first see if your BIOS is set for OS2 or "Other OS" under >64M (most
bios setups have that weird feature). Linux recognizes the right amount
of memory automagicly in most cases, but at the worst case add mem=196M
at the kernel commandline (usually LILO's append= command)

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