Intel Pentium 4 with Southbridge (ICH5/ICH5R) [motherboards] ignore everything after around 3.5 megabytes (I think it works out to 3766? on this motherboard) because that area is used by the chipsets involved. I had previously had "the other operating system :P" installed on this computer when I first realized it. The OS ignored that area of memory (i.e. I would display memory available and it was not 4GB -- which prompted me to go back and read about why). Is this really a broken BIOS [which has been updated to the most recent release] or something that anaconda should know about with these Intel chipsets? --- Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 03:42:45PM -0700, Craig > Cruden wrote: > > >If you boot with mem=1024M is it suddenely much > > faster ? > > > > Yes, it boots much faster -- what does this mean > > (other than I have a lot of useless memory :P ) > > Generally it means your BIOS is broken. You'll > probably find that > mem=xxxxk where xxxx is about 32Mb less than amount > expected will be the > cut off but can you boot it and post your /proc/mtrr > > > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail