Subject: Re: RAM limitations with YDL?
From: Darren Graham (dfgraham@scs.dera.gov.uk)
Date: Thu Sep 07 2000 - 01:24:13 MDT
Someone with a similar setup to mine has reported that 692MB is the
maximum. Use append="mem=692M" in Yaboot or BootX
Daz
At 14:56 06/09/00 -0400, you wrote:
>On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Darren Graham wrote:
> >
> > I have exactly the same problem. Your problem is caused by the kernel not
> > supporting that much RAM.
>
>That is correct. The maximum RAM supported on PPC is currently around 700MB
>iirc. You may be able to boot with a kernel argument of "mem=700" but I'm not
>sure.
>
>See http://lists.linuxppc.org/listarcs/linuxppc-dev/200007/msg00306.html
>
> > You will have to upgrade to 2.14.x. There is a
> > 2.14.x pre-release but i haven't tried it yet. I'm running
> 2.2.15pre19-ben1.
>
>This part doesn't make much sense. Do you mean 2.2.14? 2.2.14 is old, clearly
>older than 2.2.15 (and the current 2.2 version is now .17).
>
>At any rate, Ben's precompiled kernels are generally safe and support newer
>hardware. See http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh.
>
>-Hollis
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