Re: Physical memory versus detected memory

Gary Simmons (tuxkamen@idirect.com)
Fri, 18 Sep 1998 14:58:49 -0400

Kenneth Stephen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I hav a Pentium 60 machine in the office which has 32MB RAM
> plugged into it. At bootup time, the BIOS counts all the way upto
> 32MB. But linux (2.0.34 :RedHat) detects only 14 MB memory. I tried
> loading NT on it, and it also only detects 14MB memory. What could be
> the problem here?
>
> Kenneth
>

Just off the top of my head. You might want to check in the BIOS and
disable an option called "Memory Hole at 15/16MB"
or something similar. I believe reading somewhere that the memory hole
confuses Linux (and I suppose NT as well) sometimes.

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