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- Lines: 16
- Date:
Tue Dec 22 08:31:07 1998
- Orig file:
v2.1.131/linux/Documentation/memory.txt
- Orig date:
Wed Jan 15 18:46:06 1997
diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.1.131/linux/Documentation/memory.txt linux/Documentation/memory.txt
@@ -18,13 +18,9 @@
as you add more memory. Consider exchanging your
motherboard.
- 4) Linux will not currently detect above 64M of RAM,
- regardless of how much memory is actually installed.
-
All of these problems can be addressed with the "mem=XXXM" boot option
-(where XXX is the size of RAM to use in megabytes). Adding this boot
-option to your boot loader can help Linux see more than 64M. It can
-also tell Linux to use less memory than is actually installed.
+(where XXX is the size of RAM to use in megabytes).
+It can also tell Linux to use less memory than is actually installed.
See the documentation of your boot loader (LILO, loadlin, etc.) about
how to pass options to the kernel.
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