2.3.99pre6 is a pre 2.4 kernel. Use 2.4.0-test10. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Erickson" <jon.erickson at neicoltech.org> To: <tclug-list at lists.real-time.com> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 7:21 PM Subject: [TCLUG] linux beta kernels > After many hours of scouring the internet trying to figure out why my > linux box only recognizes only 64Mb of my 128Mb RAM, I found an article > with the solution. It seems to be an issue with my mainboard (Gigabyte > GA-71XE). In a post on linuxhardware.com, someone upgraded to a > 2.3.99pre6 kernel and it solved the memory issue. I know enough about > linux to know that 2.3.x is a beta kernel and I am willing to upgrade in > order to utilize an extra 64Mb of RAM. I haven't found any good > documentation on using a beta kernel. Any suggestions\cautions? > > btw, I've built kernels before, just not a beta one yet. I have tried > many things to solve this problem: appending lines to the lilo.conf > file, passing parameters to the kernel on install, and switching the > DIMM chip into different slots to name a few. > > Thanks, > > Jon > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >