Re: Linux RAM Problem

["Richard H. Fifarek" <rfifarek@som.siu.edu>]

	Hmm... when booting up, try typing linux mem=128M at the LILO
prompt.  IF that fixes it, then I would suggest recompling a new kernel
from scratch and installing it over the default kernel from Mandrake.

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Tom wrote:

> 
> I am running Linux Mandrake 6.0
> Originally I was running it on a Standard Pentium 200 MMX with 96 megs of
> RAM, and it recognized all of my RAM without any troubles.
> 
> I just upgraded my machine to a PII 400 with 64 MB of PC100 RAM, using a
> Super Micro Mainboard. I reinstalled Linux as some problems had resulted
> after the upgrade.
> Once it was all installed and back to normal, Linux was reporting that
> I had 63 MB of RAM with the original 64.. after installing this new 64 MB
> chip, it said I had 65 MB of RAM instead of 128. 
> When I boot into windows, windows recognizes it as being 128 MB of RAM, as
> does the BIOS, and no problems or errors are reported.
> 
> I even tried other RAM chips thinking maybe something was wrong with this
> RAM, but still had the same result.
> 
> The Motherboard is said to be FUlly Linux Compliant, and works well, with
> the
> exception of the RAM problem.
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated!
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom 
> 
> 
> 
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