From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: Josh Huber <huber@mclinux.com>
Cc: Linux/PowerPC Devel List <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: > 512 MB of ram on G4?
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:46:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000713204634.A9569@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000713144024.A1379@mclx.com>
On Thu, Jul 13, Josh Huber wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 08:35:07PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 13, Josh Huber wrote:
> >
> > > Hey, I'm trying to put 1GB of ram in an Apple G4 box here, but I'm having
> > > trouble. Anything higher (well, in increments of 256M) is dumping me into
> > > xmon early on boot (before the fbcons is initialized).
> > >
> > > Any thoughts? I'm unable to use xmon because of the USB
> > > keyboard...unfortunately. Too bad Apple didn't put a real serial port on
> > > these machines :(
> >
> > use mem= as argument, the highest mem I got was mem=703M.
>
> So is it not (at this time) possible to use 1GB of memory on ppc?
No, 768MB is the maximum on chrp (B50), the newer PowerMacs can handle
only that 703M. I have no reports about oldworlds.
Gruss Olaf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-07-13 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-13 18:22 > 512 MB of ram on G4? Josh Huber
2000-07-13 18:35 ` Olaf Hering
2000-07-13 18:40 ` Josh Huber
2000-07-13 18:46 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2000-07-13 19:04 ` Josh Huber
2000-07-13 21:34 ` Donald Cowart
2000-07-13 18:38 ` Nelson Abramson
2000-07-14 4:34 ` Timothy A. Seufert
2000-07-13 19:09 ` tom_gall
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