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Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 19:18:55 +0100
From: Kilobug <kilobug@freesurf.fr>
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To: Benny Sjostrand <gorm@cucumelo.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 512 Mb DIMM not detected by the BIOS!
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Benny Sjostrand wrote:
> Hello everyone!

Hello

> so my question to you "kernel-gurus", is there any posibility
 > to configure the Linux kernel to bypass the BIOS and actually
 > use my 512MB ?

You don't need to be a "kernel-guru" to answer this question.
The list of kernel boot parameters is in
linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
There, you can find:

  mem=nn[KMG]     [KNL,BOOT] force use of a specific amount of
                  memory; to be used when the kernel is not able
                  to see the whole system memory or for test.

So append mem=512M in your kernel command line. If you use lilo add
append = "mem=512M" in your lilo.conf file (and rerun lilo).

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