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- From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
- Subject: Re: Linux (0.98 SLS) does not recogonize 20 Meg Memory Config.
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 00:43:34 GMT
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- In article <1il110INN92@fast.hal.COM>, saxena@hal.COM (Nirmal Saxena) writes:
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- |> In order to run X windows I installed additional 16Mbytes (4 4meg sims)
- |> of memory to my 486Dx/33Mhz system which already had 4 Mbytes of memory
- |> (4 1Meg simms). My AMI BIOS setup recognizes 20 Mbytes of memory but the
- |> linux (SLS 0.98 distribution) operating system recognizes only 16 Mbytes of
- |> memory. My configuration was 4M in bank0 and 16M in bank 1. Suspecting
- |> that linux does not support holes in memory space I tried 16M in bank 0 and
- |> 4 M in bank 1, even then only 16 Megabytes were recogonized.
- |>
- |> I will appreciate any help or pointers in this regard.
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- There are two versions of kernel, one for <= 16 MB, the other for > 16 MB.
- Which one are you using? You may have to recompile the kernel to use
- memory above 16MB.
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- H.J.
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