From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263389AbTLDSWR (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 13:22:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263402AbTLDSWR (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 13:22:17 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([199.26.172.102]:14545 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263389AbTLDSWQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 13:22:16 -0500 Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 10:22:13 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Jason Walker Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Unable to address 1GB RAM in 2.4.19 or later Message-ID: <20031204182213.GY8039@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Jason Walker , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20031204181014.QPLW12995.imf20aec.mail.bellsouth.net@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031204181014.QPLW12995.imf20aec.mail.bellsouth.net@debian> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 01:10:31PM -0500, Jason Walker wrote: > I have run into an issue where I cannot address all of my 1GB of RAM. 2.4.18 > was the last kernel that can address all 1GB. All kernels since then appear to > only be able to address 16mb of ram if I use the 4GB himem kernel option. Here > is a snip of the dmesg on the working 2.4.18 and broken 2.4.23 kernels: Your BIOS' e820 is bust. -- wli