Mauro Quartini wrote:
> I'm running Linux RH 5.1 on a PC box.
> I installed 128MB, but Linux (2.0.34) recognize only 64MB (i check via "cat
> /proc/meminfo").
> I tried to change settings in BIOS mother board, but i did never be able to
> go over 64MB.
> (changing settings in BIOS, one time, Linux was able to 'see' only 16MB of
> 128MB).
You need to add `mem=128M' to the boot command (e.g. via an `append='
line in lilo.conf).
The BIOS reports the number of Kb available as a 16-bit number, so it
can't report more than 64Mb; you have to specify the amount of memory
manually.
> P.S.:
> I changed this parameter in my kernel and i recompiled it:
> /usr/include/asm/shmparam.h
> shmparam.h:#define SHMMAX 0x3000000 /* max shared seg size (bytes) *
This is completely unrelated.
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