According to Lambermont, David: While burning my CPU.
>
> I've got a P166 with 64Megs of RAM (EDO, 2x32). Yesterday, I added
> another 16 Megs (EDO, 2x8) for a total of 80 Megs. The boot RAM test
> counted all 80 Meg, and Win95 worked just fine. Linux (Redhat 5.1), on
> the other
> hand, was completely unhappy -- following reboot I never got the same
> problem twice, but they ranged from inability to load one or more
> drivers (e.g., gpm) to
> kernel panic! When I took the 16 Megs of RAM out, linux once again was
> happy.
>
> Is there something I need to do PRIOR to installing the new RAM? Is
> there a default limit of 64 Megs somewhere? If not, I suppose that it
> may be a timimg problem between the old and new RAM and I'm just SOL...
Yes, use the append command with lilo.
Put it in you lilo.conf and rerun lilo.
append="mem=80m"
You should get beter results.
>
> I thought 64 Megs would be enough, but now that I'm using KDE, I seem to
> have 1.5 Megs of free RAM no matter what I'm doing...
In general the more you have the more will be used.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
> David Lambermont
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Regards Richard.
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