> 512 MB of ram on G4?

[tom_gall at vnet.ibm.com]

Josh Huber wrote:
>
> 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.

Not yet ... 768 Meg is in theory the maximum. Hopefully in about 2 weeks this is
going to get fixed.

Regards,

Tom

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