On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:47:54 -0400, Fred Hamilton wrote:
>First, my system has 164Mb of RAM but Mandrake only
>reports 64.
I got a nice answer a while back on this same issue - saved text follows:
>>
To check what Linux detected, use the command 'free'. The output will
look like:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 127980 124964 3016 44460 15884
53136
-/+ buffers/cache: 55944 72036
Swap: 130404 2792
127612
The line you're interested in is the top left numeric cell. If that
doesn't show roughly the same number, you've got a problem to fix.
To get Linux to recognize all of your memory, insert a line reading:
append="mem=128M"
into /etc/lilo.conf. The "linux" section will then look something like
this:
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13-4mdksmp
label=linux
root=/dev/hda3
append="mem=128M"
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After editing /etc/lilo.conf, you'll need to rerun lilo to install the
new boot information. This will run it:
/sbin/lilo
Reboot the machine and all should be well!
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Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
