Re: RAM 1/2 what it's supposed to be

On 29 Jul 2003 17:51:52 GMT, TCS <The.Central.Scrutinizer@p.o.b.o.x.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:05:35 GMT, Alan Connor <xxxxxx@xxxx.xxx> wrote:
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>> I have an old compaq that is supposed to have 32 megs of RAM. That's
>> what windows (which used to be on it) reported.
>>
>> But since installing Linux, I seem to have only 16 megs.
>>
>> Anyone have any idea what's going on?
>
> Try booting it with "mem=32m". If it works then the bios was probably
> misreporting the availble memory as 16m.


Will try that. Have read about passing parameters at boot, but never done
it.

Thanks, TCS


Alan


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