Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

[Hal Martin <hal.martin@gmail.com>]

Well this machine supposedly supports up to 8GB of RAM so I can only
assume that it doesn't map the pci-space to there. But I wonder, will
enabling the higher RAM limit really open up more RAM? The BIOS detects
all 4096MB, but Grub only lists 3.6GB.

AFAIK your machine can only use as much RAM as the bootloader detects, no?


-Hal


Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
>
>> On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote:
>>> That's the problem. For one thing to work, you have to sacrify
>>> other(s).
>>
>> and AFAIR the option won't help you, if your maiboards bios maps
>> pci-space at
>> the 3,6GB-4GB range.
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>>
>
> You're absolutely right about that. My machines as 64-bits and I don't
> even have that ammount of RAM, but I disable that bios option, anyway.
>
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