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I was in this situation. SuSE 8.2 wouldn't recognize the additional RAM. In fact I ran into some trouble booting the system after adding the RAM. The "run-of-the-mill" or "out-of-the-box" kernel doesn't like anything more than 880MB. I'm running RH9 right now and so far it's been good with the 1.5GB that I have (the only distro so far that installed and recognized the whole amount). So far SuSE 8.2 and Mandrake 9.1 would not recognize the extra RAM and caused some crazy installation issues as well... Mandrake 9.2 RC2 is noticeably different - like Redhat 9 it recognized everything. I believe SuSE 9 will have large RAM support precompiled.
... Come to think of it, the latest kernel upgrade (2.4.20-20.9 in RH9) won't recognize the full 1.5GB either.
I made a mistake it's not 1GB kit it's 500MB kit with 2*256 sorry!!
So now I have 768MB of RAm
BIOS detects it
I also see this amount at SuSE boot log
But i see no real advance in speed and loading until now
Yeah i will wait the 9.0 that comes out this 24 October
Or perhaps i will learn how to recompile my kernel to add this large ram
Thanks
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