This isn't so much a laptop problem as a "some machines" problem. add mem=XXm to the kernel in startup. If using lilo this can be done with the append line, but I suggest you test it using manual entry first
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, William Heindl wrote: > > I am running slink on an IBM 560Z with 128Meg of RAM. Only 64Meg are > being seen (as evidenced from doing "dmesg"). Now, I have seen in > various HOWTOs that this is expected, and the solution is to build the > kernel with "newmem" set. However, I'm puzzled. Two guys at my > office built their systems using the same set of floppies and they see all > 128Meg in their machines without doing anything special. The > difference seems to be that they are not using laptops. Is this > something peculiar to the laptop version of the Pentium II? Is there > step by step documentation somewhere to help me through the kernel > build required for this fix? > > Thanks, > > Biff > > -- > Dr. William A. Heindl > CASS/UCSD-0424 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 9500 Gilman Dr. phone: (858)534-8016 fax: (858)534-2294 > La Jolla, CA 92093 www: http://mamacass.ucsd.edu:8080/people/wheindl.html > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
