On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 02:33:18PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 20 Dec, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > > If you're using lilo you need to add to your lilo.conf the following > > line: > > > > append="mem=128M" > > > > I not sure if 2.1.x kernels need that !
> Yes, all kernels need it. The 64meg barrier is a lilo thing, not > kernel afaik. 2.1.x kernels do not need it. 2.0.36 does not need it. It has nothing to do with LILO. LILO does not determine memory size for the Linux kernel. The BIOS call to determine memory size could originally return a maximum of 64MB. Recent (i.e. >= Pentium) machines support an alternate BIOS call that can report >64MB. Newer kernels use this new BIOS call if available. Some really old machines with >64MB may still require something like "mem=128M", but I doubt many old machines support that much RAM anyway. Regards, Jeff
