On Thu, May 31, 2007 20:52, Les wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 11:51 -0700, Paula J. Lindsay wrote: >> I've just installed a fc5 machine. He needs this rev because it is >> compatible with his bruker software. >> Anyway, he already had 1 gig of memory in the machine, but when we put >> another bank of memory (1 gig) >> we could not boot up. We did a switch and they (both 1 gig dimms) and >> they both work apart, but not >> together. Has anyone ran into this problem? I guess I could look on >> fedoraproject.org to see if fc5 >> supports 2 gigs of ram. Anyway, any suggestions/advice/opinions are >> appreciated. Thank you in advance. > > If it is an older machine check the BIOS. It may not support the added > ram, or there may be some hardware switch or jumper required. I vaguely recall this happening with some machine and some FC version, and that specifying mem=2GB made it work. YMMV
