I think it has something to do with motherboards, In my office, with some motherboards, 7.1 can detect 256mbs while in other motherboards, with same module of ram, it can not detect.
However mem=256 should solve your problem as other people mentioned. And if it works, put this lines to your lilo.conf so that you dont have to write it everytime. -kunal ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kinjal Sonpal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LIHelp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 10:40 AM Subject: Re: [LIH] RH7.0 unable to detect 256 MB RAM > Amit Bhargava wrote on Saturday, November 17, 2001 > > > I have RH7.0 on a machine and recently upgraded the RAM to 256 > MB from 64 MB > > RAM, on a single dimm, however when I run "free" command, I get > to see only > > 64 MB as available RAM, > > is it possible that I should be able to correct or see my > vendor again. > > I don't think there's anything wrong with the h/w as such .. I > recently did the same with SuSE 7.1 and it dint show any > problems. After the upgradation, I did memtest, just to ensure > the chip was okay, and then booting into Linux was without any > problems. *free* showed me proper figures .. > > > Any suggestions. > > I don't know how to rectify the problem, but u can try mem=256M > at the lilo prompt after the appropriate label .. May be that's > required for linux to recognize the full amt of RAM .. Another > thing that's striking my mind is the compatibility with the m/b > .. I'm not very much aware of the h/w things, but there're some > old m/b which can't support big single chip RAMs .. > > HTH .. > > > Regards > > Amit Bhargava > > Regs, > Kinjal Sonpal > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help > _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
