On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Hi fellow Linuxers! I have just upgraded to 7.2. It is most excellent! When I
>upgraded I changed over to the grub boot loader...
> I have one problem with grub. I cannot set my RAM.
> I used to use Lilo and had to use the append "mem=128M" option (in lilo.conf) to
>cause the kernel to find the whole 128 meg of my ram. Without this it would only find
>64 meg :(
> What I would like to know is how to configure grub to read the full 128 meg of ram.
>Also I need to know the files I need to edit to do this. With Lilo it was lilo.conf.
>What is it for grub?
>
>
> Cheers, Gerald S.
--
title linux
kernel (hd1,4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb6 hdc=ide-scsi
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That's the grub line that loads linux on my system. Just put
mem=128M (no 'append' & no quotes as in lilo) where I have
'hdc=ide-scsi'. You can put multiple args on the line, just
separate them with a space.
Take a look at 'info grub'. It's one of the few man and info
pages that's not written like you already understand everything :)
Often when Linux can't see all your ram, it denotes a
substandard motherboard/bios. Also if you have 'onboard' (built
in) items like video, you'll need to subtract the ram they use from
system ram. eg, if the video is advertised as 8mb, then you'll
prob'ly need to use a 'mem=120M'.
--
~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
