Bug 18776
| Summary: | ThinkPad 600 memory problem | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Gabor Kaszas <kaszika> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Aaron Brown <abrown> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | CC: | rvokal |
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| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-10-10 06:34:21 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Gabor Kaszas
2000-10-10 06:34:18 UTC
This is a BIOS problem. The machine doesn't correctly support E801 memory sizing. You can pass mem=228M as a lilo option, or add append="mem=228M" to the lilo.conf for the kernel. Be sure to try this on the command line first before adding it to the lilo configuration. You may need to give 227M on some systems as some ram gets borrowed by the BIOS at times. The 2.4test tree also tries to use 0xE820 memory sizing which tends to be less buggy (vendors have to get it right as windows 9x uses E820 sizing 8)) |