[Wylug-help] Extra RAM not being recognised

[James Holden]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:34:34PM +0100, linux at felixu.com wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I tried to upgrade my desktop's memory from 512M by adding a 1G unit.
> 
> The BIOS (I think) picks it up, because when GRUB shows up, it says something 
> about 636K lower / 1570688K upper memory.
> 
> I've tried switching the RAM units around, and I've also tried appending 
> mem=1536M on the end of my kernel line in my grub config, but my system still 
> only recognises 1G altogether according to /proc/meminfo or top.
> 
> Any ideas where I could turn next?

Hi Felix,

Is it an old machine or old kernel? What distro version are you running,
and are you using a custom kernel?

The output from 'dmesg' would be useful here.

Cheers,

James

> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Felix.
> 
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