John Rowan wrote:
I just installed Core 1 on a quad PentiumPro 200 Proliant. The BIOS
on this machine has a problem in that it does not properly report all
available RAM to the OS. In prior installs (using LILO) I could add
the line append="mem=exactmap mem=640k@0m mem=511m@1m" and the machine
used all available RAM. During the first attempt to install Core 1 on
the machine it reported the machine had insufficient RAM to install on
this hardware. I tried the install again, at the boot prompt I entered
linux mem=exactmap mem=640k@0m mem=511m@1m and the install ran fine.
Since Core 1 doesn't use LILO I can't figure out where to add these
options to have grub pass it to the kernel. I tried on the kernel
/vmlinz line but the machine hangs at Uncompressing Linux ... 0k
booting the kernel.
Suggestions please.
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After some experimentation I found that adding mem=exactmap mem=640k@0m
mem=511m@1m informed the OS about the total RAM available. Under LILO
you had to have the line on it's own in the lilo.conf like:
append="mem=exactmap mem=640k@0m mem=511m@1m"
