Another thought, I'm using the default kernel that comes with Debian. Would I have better success with a custom compiled one that is for the Pentium chip in the system?
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Isaac MacFarlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I was going by the System Monitor that is included with GNOME. The > cat /proc/meminfo results in a MemTotal of 224436 kb. When I try the > mem=288M it gives me an Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory. I > find that puzzling since the BIOS reports the full 288M. Running dmidecode > shows that the maximum memory for the system is actually 384M, but I don't > have another chip to put in and I don't think that would be worthwhile > anyway unless I can get this figured out. I actually know about the > thinkwiki site. It helped me solve my audio problems, but there is very > little info on there about memory issues. I'm beginning to wonder if I need > to update the BIOS or maybe dmidecode is wrong about this system. It hasn't > been wrong on other systems I used it with, but this could be a quirk of the > IBM system. > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Isaac MacFarlane wrote: >> > Hello all. I have 288MB installed in my system and the BIOS does see it >> all, >> > but Debian is only recoginizing 220MB. >> >> What indicators show only 220M of memory? This problem sounds very >> unusual to me. Also 288M seems like a lot of memory for the 770. >> >> After boot the 'dmesg' command will report memory information. That >> information will be logged in the /var/log/dmesg file. What >> information is logged there? >> Here is a sample from one of my systems: >> >> BIOS-provided physical RAM map: >> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) >> BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) >> BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) >> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007000000 (usable) >> BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) >> 112MB LOWMEM available. >> ... >> Memory: 106320k/114688k available (1499k kernel code, 7864k reserved, >> 599k data, 256k init, 0k highmem) >> >> It would be useful to see the output from /proc/meminfo. >> In particular what does MemTotal show? In the above system with 112M >> the system shows the following. >> >> cat /proc/meminfo >> >> MemTotal: 110940 kB >> >> > I tried adding a boot parameter in GRUB using the mem command, but I >> > ended up with only 64MB after booting. The command was: >> > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> > I may be misunderstanding the syntax and have things totally wrong. In >> fact, >> > I would say that is likely considering the results. I appreciate any >> help >> > you can provide. >> >> You probably want to try something more like this instead: >> >> mem=288M >> >> But if tell it more memory than you actually have available it will >> cause the system problems. >> This is documented in the linux source with various Documentation/* >> files such as boot.txt, kernel-parameters.txt, and memory.txt. >> >> A very good resource for ThinkPads is the ThinkWiki. >> >> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:770 >> >> Bob >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iD8DBQFIfu5J0pRcO8E2ULYRAn54AJ9yqSvV2rmCPpXNIXFrIbh2ho5EpwCfTw6+ >> y/gvX18eyg1tRYZI1vGDQb4= >> =AhpL >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> >
