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- From: saxena@hal.COM (Nirmal Saxena)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Linux 0.98 SLS does not recogonize 20 M memory Config
- Message-ID: <1isi3tINNqp@fast.hal.COM>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 19:34:21 GMT
- Organization: HaL Computer Systems, Inc.
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- ==My original posting:
-
- ==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.
-
- I want to thank you all for your responses. As most of you suggested,
- I got the 0.99.2 sources, I aswered no to the question on
- 16M limit (during make config), recompiled the kernel and created a
- boot image using `make disk`. Here is what happened when I rebooted
- the system using the new boot Image.
-
- 1. The system recogonized 20 Meg memory this time but the next
- thing it printed was " NMI received dazed and confused ..."
-
- 2. The system continued and gave response to the effect that
- the memory map was lost and there was not enough buffer space.
- Then the system halted.
-
- I thought I was not configuring the kernel properly so as an experiment
- repeated the whole process rebooting of course from my old SLS 0.98
- boot disks but this time limiting the memory to 16M, during make config.
- This time the system booted correctly (of course recogonized only
- 16M) and everything seemed to work and X windows also worked
- properly (from the x distribution in SLS 0.98). The only snag I noticed
- was that the `free' command did not work.
-
- Some additional facts:
-
- My original configuration was from SLS distribution ftp'ed from
- tsx-11.mit.edu. The gcc version I noticed was 2.2.2d. I am not
- sure about the shared library version.
-