Bug 15743

Summary:	Kernel detects only first 64MB
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	bastiaan
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm>
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Description bastiaan 2000-08-08 16:58:11 UTC

The kernel detects only the first 64MB of my computer, instead of the full
128MB. My configuration:
CPU: AMD-K7, stepping 2, 500 MHz
MoBo: Asus K7M
Memory: single 128MB SDRAM DIMM, 100MHz 

Workaround:
Add append="mem=128M" to parameters in /etc/lilo.conf

Comment 1 Brian J. Conway 2000-08-08 19:06:23 UTC

If you don't want to add an append line to lilo, you can either turn of ACPI in
the BIOS or use a 2.4 kernel, which doesn't have this limitation.

Comment 2 Alan Cox 2000-08-08 22:09:35 UTC

BIOS issue