Dean Allen Provins wrote: > I just added another 32 + 64 MB of memory to an older Pentium 1 (2 72 > pin SIMMS each). There was already 32 MB installed, so this should have > totalled 128 MB. The BIOS finds about 117 MB, and the kernel (2.2.18) > finds just 65 MB.
Read this for the details: http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.3 The older BIOS ABI only had enough bits to report 64 MB as a maximum amount of ram installed. At the time the programmers certainly said to themselves, "Who would ever have that much ram installed?" :-) You will probably need to supply the correct amount of memory as an option to the kernel at boot time. I will assume you are using lilo as that is the default. Put this in your /etc/lilo.conf file and then run lilo. append="mem=128M" lilo Bob
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