24 May
2001
24 May
'01
00:39
* Anders Johansson [Mon, 21 May 2001 22:10:51 +0200]:
A question: I thought this was fixed in the newer kernels, yet from time to time this problem pops up. Does anyone know why? Is it a problem with certain types of memory, certain bioses or what?
It's a BIOS problem. The original BIOS routine could only report up to 64 MB of memory, so new calls where invented that could report more. And then MS invented yet another BIOS call to be used by windows and BIOS vendors followed suit. Newer kernels do support the new call and may thus see the whole memory. -- Penguins to save the dinosaurs -- Handelsblatt on Linux for S/390