[ltp] can't detect all 256 MB of RAM (RH 6.2, 2.2.14 on 770X)

Vivek Dasmohapatra linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Mon, 9 Jul 2001 01:55:46 +0100 (BST)


On 8 Jul 2001, Rob Mayoff wrote:

> +---------- On Jul 9, Vivek Dasmohapatra said:
> > append="mem=128M"
> 
> Assuming you have 128M installed, setting mem=128M would be very bad.
> The Thinkpad BIOS uses the top 576K, and if Linux tries to use it,
> it will crash.

My mistake. I didn't actually have to use this setting, the A20p/2.4.x 
doesn't need it. D'oh.

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