Bryce is right on. The HIGHMEM option is not in the kernel, thus it will
only see 896MB of physical RAM. You will need to recompile the kernel with
this enabled. From 'make menuconfig', see the "Processor type and features
-> HIGHMEM I/O support" stuff.

~Jay

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On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Bryce C wrote:

> More than likely, I think the kernel doesn't support 1Gb+ of memory.
> Don't know about debian specifically, but distros like mandrake package
> separate kernels for higher limits, or you can compile your own kernel
> (not for novices).
>
> On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 16:28, elemint@theriver.com wrote:
> > So the system does not just detect the new amount of memory?
> >
> > I use grub, but I will look for an option like that.
> >
> >
> >
> > jim
> >
> >
> > > There is an option that needs to be fed to Lilo that shows the amount of
> > > RAM
> > > that a system has
> > >
> > > something like
> > > append=Mem=1536M
> > >
> > >> I added some memory to a Dell server running debian and the bios
> > >> reported
> > >> that it detected more memory during the next bootup but when I did a
> > >> free
> > >> It does not seem to report more memory, there is a more that normal that
> > >> is free but not 512 mb free.
> > >>
> > >> I went from 1 gig to 1.5 gigs of memory, not sure if Debian sees it this
> > >> way.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>              total       used       free     shared    buffers
> > >> cached
> > >> Mem:        903688     817132      86556          0     134824
> > >> 322400
> > >> -/+ buffers/cache:     359908     543780
> > >> Swap:      2032212          0    2032212
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