Re: mem=options changed in 2.6.x?
From: Randy.Dunlap (rddunlap_at_osdl.org)
Date: 03/31/04
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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:42:15 -0800 To: "Casey Allen Shobe" <cshobe@osss.net>
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:28:35 -0500 (EST) Casey Allen Shobe wrote:
| I have a Compaq Proliant 5000 with 320Mb RAM.
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| If I boot up either linux 2.4.22 or 2.6.4, it only identifies 12Mb of memory.
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| With 2.4.22, the kernel parameters "mem=exactmap mem=640k@0M mem=319M@1M"
| worked to make the kernel identify all of the memory.
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| I have tried the same with linux 2.6.4, but with the above flags the
| kernel will not boot. With "mem=320M", the system boots, but it still
| thinks it has only 12Mb RAM.
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| Something I'm missing or did this change between releases?
See file: Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
Basically, you need to change "mem=" to "memmap=" in all 3 places
above.
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