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SubjectRe: mem=options changed in 2.6.x?
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:28:35 -0500 (EST) Casey Allen Shobe wrote:

| I have a Compaq Proliant 5000 with 320Mb RAM.
|
| If I boot up either linux 2.4.22 or 2.6.4, it only identifies 12Mb of memory.
|
| 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.
|
| 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.
|
| 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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