[ILUG] Re: Transferring System

[Jason Corcoran]

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On Friday 16 April 2004 15:12, Michael Treacy wrote:
> One quick question: the new server is a Dell 1600SC with 1GB of RAM.
> However, in the bootup it comes up with a message stating that there is
> 256MB available. And when I do a check in SuSE, it gives me 256MB as the
> total amount of Physical memory. It says 1024MB in the bios settings and
> the 256MB message comes up before Linux starts booting.
>
> Is this normal? (surely not!) Is it possible to get at the rest of the
> memory?
>


You may have to pass the total memory to the kernel at boot time, havent had 
to do this is a while. the syntax is 

mem=<totalmemory in MB>M

Jason
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