Free -m showing incorrect total memory

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I have two 512MB PC3200 sticks installed (which is actually recognized as 1048MB by the BIOS) but when I do "free -m" it reports this:

Admiral LSD · Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 9:46 am Post subject:

You don't have high memory support enabled.

There are two ways the fix this. By far the easiest is to simply go into the kernel config and enable the "High Memory" option (set it to 4Gb) under "Processor Type and Features" then recompile and reboot.

The other option is to download the appropriate version of Con Kolivas' "1Gb lowmem" for your kernel from his page at:

http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/

apply it and (I assume) just recompile and reboot.
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