Re: RAM detection problem

[Marco Gerards]

Scott Saccone <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm having a problem with GRUB 0.94 and was wondering if it is fixed in
> GRUB2. FC2/x86_64 (2.6.5-1.358smp) ran fine with 2GB RAM, but after
> installing another 2GB it only detects 3GB. GRUB 0.94 also only detects
> 3GB. I noticed in the source code that GRUB is using int to store
> certain quantities related to RAM. There is also a bug report at
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=9954 related to
> this. Could this my problem? If GRUB has a bug, would this affect linux?
> Can I fix this by simply updating to GRUB2?

Unfortunately I don't have that much RAM to test this.  But it would
be really nice if you could test it for us and help us fixing it if it
does not work.

Thanks,
Marco