I seem to recall some old motherboards that required you to set jumpers indicating the amount of memory. However, I may be barking mad. Do you have a manual? If not, may be worth looking for old specs on gateway's web site. Andy On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Sielaff, Bruce wrote: > : I just installed linux (redhat 6.2 - kernel 2.2.14-6.1.1) on an old > Gateway > : (P5-90) which has 80 MB of RAM (2-8MB and 2-32MB SIMs), but linux > apparently > : only sees a portion of it: > : > : from /var/logs/dmesg: > : Memory: 13336K/15360K available (1080K kernel code, 412K reserved, 468K > : data, 64K init, 0K bigmem) > : > : I tried reversing the order of the SIMS, I tried removing the 8MB SIMs and > : only using the 32MB SIMs, but nothing changed. Just prior to installing > : linux, I had Windows NT running on the box and it claimed to see 77MB > during > : bootup. > : > : Any idea what is going on here? How do I get linux to see all of the > : memory? I am new to linux, so maybe I am just overlooking something > : obvious. > : > : Thanks for any help. > : > : Bruce > : > : ---------------------------------------------- > : Bruce Sielaff > : iMcKesson 952-814-7143 > : Bruce.Sielaff at iMcKesson.com > : > : > : > : CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, > is > : for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential > : and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or > : distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please > : contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > : message. > : > : --------------------------------------------------------------------- > : To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > : For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > : > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is > for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential > and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or > distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org