[tlinux-users:08578] Re: ATTENTION A105 AND A135 OWNERS!

"Also sprach Jonathan Buzzard:"
> On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 23:10 -0500, Kernel Panic wrote:
> > This is not an OS issue, it is a bug in the BIOS.  If the BIOS will
> > not see the RAM, then the OS (No matter which one you use) will not
> > see it.
> 
> Not entirely true. Linux has long supported a command line parameter, in

Well, what he said seems entirely true to me!  (hence that it is not
entirely true seems not to be entirely a true thing to say :-).  That
there is and always has been an OS workaround in Linux is another issue.

Perhaps you meant to say that he could have mentioned that, in other
words, that his reply was not helpdesk-standard complete? Not "not
entirely true", but "not the entire truth of the matter"? 

Memory detection can be difficult .. I missed the OP; I wonder what
machine he is talking about? Curious that a modern machine shows
that old bear.

> which you can pass it the correct amount of installed RAM. It was
> introduced way back when many BIOS'es had similar problems with more
> than 64MB of RAM.

Peter