Re: [TCLUG:21037] recognizing memory

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

"Sielaff, Bruce" wrote:
> 
> I just installed linux (redhat 6.2 - kernel 2.2.14-6.1.1) on an old Gateway
> (P5-90) which has 80 MB of RAM (2-8MB and 2-32MB SIMs), but linux apparently
> only sees a portion of it:
> 
> from /var/logs/dmesg:
> Memory: 13336K/15360K available (1080K kernel code, 412K reserved, 468K
> data, 64K init, 0K bigmem)

Hmm..  My best guess is that you have a setting in your BIOS turned
on/off for OS/2-style memory use above 16 megs.  Try toggling that back
and forth to see if it changes anything.  Also, you may want to try
using a newer kernel.

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