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Re: 64M again



one of my server: Abit BH4 + Celeron 300a
have 256MB mem and it detect it automatically

I heard about this problem once and the solution was update of the bios.

"Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" wrote:

> Good `date`!
>
> I know it looks like a silly FAQ question, but it isn't:
> Does anybody know, what happens with Linux detection of above 64M memory?
> I know about "appemd=" solution, but it is not what I want - I want it to
> know the memory size by itself. I heard that later kernels know to detect
> memory above 64M, but I never had success with it. All installations that
> I've done on new machines had to have that "append=" kludge. Now, does
> anybody know what is the status of the matter now? Is there something that
> allows kernel to reliably detect full memory size, and if so - where is
> it? And if not - does anybody know why? Windows can do it, so it's doable,
> then why a couple of years passed and it's still not there?
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