Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:46:41 04/13/00
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On April 13, 2000 at 14:22:19, ujecrh wrote: > >If I remember correctly, until kernel 2.2 linux used to ask memory size to the >bios that returned a 16bits integer so that it would not detect memory over >64Mb. The workaround was to give a kernel parameter mem=<size>. > >This should have been fixed in kernels 2.2 but I know some people are quite slow >to upgrade their good stable linux kernel (especially if you have modules not >yet supported in recent kernels). > >ujecrh It definitely works in 2.1/2.2/2.3... The bug report we looked at for windows said something like "for some mobos, we must depend on the bios mem size, as probing beyond the end of physical memory causes unpredictable hangs." In any case, the extra 128mb was dead for a short while until we converted everything to NT where all the problems with security and everything else seemed to disappear.
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