Re: Linux and more than 64Mb ram

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From: David Gibson
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 00:00

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John Alexander (johna@sympac.com.au) wrote:
: Hi
: I've got a P166+ with 64meg of ram.  However I would like it to have
: more :)

: I installed 80 meg and the bios recognised it, but linux (slackware
: 2.0.27) only saw 64 meg still.

: It there anything I have to do to get it to go, or is there a limit to
: 64 meg?
: Thanks.

mem=80M on the kernel command line I beleive. Linux can use lots of memory
but won't autodetect above 64M

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