[ltp] tp 600e

[James Hawtin]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Arion Meier wrote:

> >===== Original Message From Thomas Hood <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com> 
> =====
> >Enter the exact figure (number of Kilobytes) that appears at
> >the top left-hand corner of the display when you boot the
> >laptop.  For me it's 130496K.
> >
> >Another thought.  Make sure that you really have 192 MB and
> >that it's all "working".  Does Windows recognize that much
> >RAM?  The BIOS setup may have a memory test program that
> >you can run.            // Thomas
> >
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Linux was unable to handle the 192M parameter, but with the exact number 
> 196032K everthing works fine.
> 
> Arion
> 

And that is because

196032/1024=191M +448K 

Linux did not accept 192M as a parameter because you do not have 192M of
ram! IBM reserves the top 576K of ram.

James


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