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Only 1G of 2G upgrade recognized

Submitted by Anonymous
on June 16, 2004 - 10:46pm

I was attempting to upgrade my machine from 1.25G to 3G, by replacing 2 128M simms with 1G simms.

The BIOS recongizes all 3G, but inside linux I only have access to 2G of memory

Linux automatically recogized a change from 1.25 to 2G, but are there some kernal parameters I need to adjust to access the full 3G of physical memory?

thanks for any Advice

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biscuitman
on
June 16, 2004 - 10:57pm

The default physical memory is 2G in the kernel. You have to configure and build your own kernel.

Any other workarounds?

Anonymous
on
June 24, 2004 - 11:53am

Is there anyway to patch the Kernel to work around this? Its a bit of a pain to have to rebuild the kernel, especially since I've never done it before.

This seems so much more like a simple configuration item, it surprises me that it requires a new kernal.

Also, so you know if any of the newer versions of the kernal will have this value higher by default, perhaps I can just upgrade to a more recent version.

thanks again for any information

John

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