Re: Less than 4MB RAM

George (greerga@entropy.muc.muohio.edu)
Tue, 17 Jun 1997 10:52:55 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Larry M. Augustin wrote:

>Could you try the 2.0.30+pre2 kernel? (See
>ftp.varesearch.com:/pub/kernel/linux2.0.30-gcc2.7.2-5). It has some
>memory size detection code in it I wrote, and I'd like to know if that
>code has a problem on your machine.

Ok, I feel dumb...anyway:
Kernel Loadlin Memory Detected
2.0.29 1.6/1.6a 28,864k
2.0.30-pre2 1.6/1.6a 28,864k
2.1.42 1.6a 28,864k

If I specify mem=28m, I get 28,672k, which is correct but 192k smaller.
BIOS reports 28,480k on memory test, skipping 384k ROM region I assume.

-George

(Well, now I can get that 386/16 4MB-RAM 40MB-HD MicroChannel working...)