On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 04:12:20AM -0800, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: > of you can help me. Due to the insanely cheap prices of memory, I > picked up 3 512MB PC133 CAS2 DIMMS for the Cube. MacOS has no problem > with them, and I get a warm and fuzzy feeling from seeing "Largest > Unused Block: 1.41GB" in the 'About This Macintosh' dialog. However, > I've now nuked MacOS from the drive (fanless server!) and this this is > what the top of dmesg has to say: > > Total memory = 768MB; using 2048kB for hash table (at c0400000) > Linux version 2.4.12-powerpc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 20010810 > (Debian prerelease)) #1 Sun Oct 14 15:08:09 EDT 2001
you need CONFIG_HIGHMEM for this much memory on powerpc. why, because the kernel is wonky on powerpc in this area i guess. > append="video=aty128fb idebus=66 mem=1536M" you don't need the mem arg. > So where's the other half of my RAM? On a side note, is it really true > that swapfiles can only be 2GB? And does that 'idebus=66' do anything > except satisfy my more compulsive urges? swap files are more limited on 32 bit architectures. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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