> 512 MB of ram on G4?

Josh Huber huber at mclinux.com
Fri Jul 14 04:40:24 EST 2000


On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 08:35:07PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, Josh Huber wrote:
> 
> > Hey, I'm trying to put 1GB of ram in an Apple G4 box here, but I'm having
> > trouble.  Anything higher (well, in increments of 256M) is dumping me into
> > xmon early on boot (before the fbcons is initialized).
> > 
> > Any thoughts?  I'm unable to use xmon because of the USB
> > keyboard...unfortunately.  Too bad Apple didn't put a real serial port on
> > these machines :(
> 
> use mem= as argument, the highest mem I got was mem=703M.

So is it not (at this time) possible to use 1GB of memory on ppc?

hmm.

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