I've installed a server with these components: AMD Athlon 800Mhz Motherboard Gigabyte 7AX (2X AGP and 100Mhz DIMM) 384 Mb DIMM 133Mhz Video Card Matrox G200 8Mb Controller Adaptec 39160 Ultra2Wide SCSI Hard Disk Seagate Cheetah 18.4 Gb 10.000 rpm Hard Disk Quantum 10.1 Gb EIDE 2 CD-ROM & 1 DVD SCSI 1 CD-ROM EIDE Audio Card Forte' Media (the chip) Problem: At the Boot in Every possible configuration of the DIMM Linux can see ONLY 64 Mb of RAM (The Mainboard Display correctly the size, but if i mount 128, 256 or 384 Mb the Linux Say me that i have only 64 Mb. You have an idea regarding this? Thank you and sorry but no solution (upgrade bios or other) do not resolve my problem.
Here is a Workaround that should work: append="mem=384MB" assuming linux is your image name, boot and at the LILO: prompt type: linux mem=384MB If this works, then update lilo.conf. Do NOT get this parameter wrong, Linux will try to use memory that doesn't exist. Add the line append="mem=384MB" to your kernel entry in /etc/lilo.conf -- Keith Moore
Its dependant on the BIOS. The 2.4 series kernels will use the same bios interface windows does because it seems thats the only way a bios vendor implements things properly