I'm trying to understand what I need to do to make the last 500Meg of
my 4GB memory visible on a FC4 x86_64. I assume that the 3.5GB - 4GB
area is being used for hardware and I need to arrange for the memory
to be mapped elsewhere.
My motherboard, a tyan k8e (s2865) has entries in the bios for
something called:
S/W memory hole Remapping disable / enable
H/W memory hole Remapping disable / enable
MTRR mapping mode continuous / discrete
It looked like one or both of the first two entries would do the
trick, but when I enabled them all that happened was my add-in network
card stopped working. At boot dhcp was unable to get an address and
booting hung at that point. This happened s/w or h/w remapping was
active (either singly or together. I have no idea what the third item
is used for, the motherboard "manual" is a joke with it simply
repeating the same meaningless phrase with no explanation.
Hints? I'd really like to use all 4 Gigs.
-wolfgang
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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/
