Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ3 RAM

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 10 May 2003 11:29, Leslie Herps wrote:
> > I have found that not all RaQ3s accept 1BG RAM.
> > They will limit the RAM to 900MB, something about the kernel not having
> > high-memory enabled. They seem to operate with 900MB, not sure of the
> > implications. The ROM does announce 1024MB, so the ROM does accept it.
>
> Stange... Perhaps RH 5.x doesn't support 1GB?? Odd....
> Isn't RH5.x (where RAQ3 is based on - Redhat flavour linux) about 5 years
> old?

This was on a RaQ3 running 550 OS, I just noted it.
Dmesg:
> /var/log/dmesg reports
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> BIOS-e801: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
> BIOS-e801: 0000000000100000 - 0000000040000000 (usable)
> Warning only 896MB will be used.
> Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.

> > I have run the same units with 768MB without any announcements from the
> > system. It may be prefered to use the 768MB rather than 1GB in these
>
Gerald
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