[ale] Redhat 4.1 memory problems

[Andrew Newton]

We had two machines here that have the same problem under 4.2.
The solution was to use the mx boot parameter and everything
worked after that.  Consult the bootprompt howto.

-Andy

Bryan R. Mattern wrote:
> 
> I built up a machine on Thursday and installed RH 4.1, just as on my
> notebook.  The problem is, linux only seems to recognize 14.7MB of the
> 72MB of memory in the box.  BIOS is giving me the right numbers, but I
> can't get linux to see it.  Swap appears to be working fine, but the
> drive is noisy trying to make up for physical RAM under X.
> 
> Here is some info:
> 
> 40MB swap partition and root filesystem (all devices SCSI off a 2940UW)
> An old Micronics AT motherboard
> 72MB RAM (2x32 and 2x8)
> P75
> 
> Am I missing something simple?  Anything to check next?  Anyone ever
> heard of this?
> 
> tia,
> 
> Bryan Mattern
> gt7451b at acme.gatech.edu

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