One more data point to the problem. Just for grins at boot I entered
at the boot: promt linux mem=128M. After finishing the boot I looked
at the output from top and the system was addressing all 128MB of
RAM. This is clearly not a long term solution but maybe it will
help in getting there.
It was suggested that the "append" line be moved to just after the
"install" line but that did not help. I also tired putting it the
first line in the file and that did not help either.
Anyway any suggestions greatly appreciated!
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, rj wrote:
> I have installed RedHat 6.0 on a system with 128MB of RAM. At boot the
> system does a mem check and sees all the RAM (as does NT4.0). I have
> added append="mem=128M" (thanks Ray) to /etc/lilo.conf and that has
> not helped. I will include a copy of the file below and the first few
> lines of output from the "top" command.
>
> How can I get the system to see all 128MB of RAM?
>
> Thanks!
>
> [root@localhost /root]# cat /etc/lilo.conf
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
> append="mem=128M"
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hda6
> read-only
>
> >From top:
>
>
> 2:00am up 38 min, 5 users, load average: 0.08, 0.04, 0.05
> 84 processes: 82 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 6.0% user, 4.2% system, 0.0% nice, 89.6% idle
> Mem: 63200K av, 61580K used, 1620K free, 74176K shrd, 1588K buff
> Swap: 133016K av, 524K used, 132492K free 27436K cached
>
>
