I assume you ran lilo before you rebooted?
Eddie Strohmier
Bonwell Globalnet
www.bonwell.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Ketan Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 6:35 PM
Subject: FW: LILO question
> I tried adding this to lilo.conf and rebooted
> But when i type 'free', it still shows me the foll:
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 64076 62780 1296 11768 1812 11728
> -/+ buffers/cache: 49240 14836
> Swap: 88316 28156 60160
>
> This is the same as before I edited the /etc/lilo.conf file.
> I have a total of 160M in the m/c, out of which 8M is shared with on-board
> video card. = 152MB.
> So, what do i fix this ?
> Also, how do i check what sizes the partitions are ? And how do I
> increase/change the partition size of say, the swap partition?
> thanks in advance
> ketan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eddie Strohmier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 1:59 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: LILO question
>
>
> It really has nothing to do with linux and all to do with your Bios. I
have
> two machines running. One recognizes the Ram one does not. Both run RH
6.0.
> One has an older version of award Bios and the new is award but current
> version of Bios. So in the lilo.conf file under /etc I simply add a line
> that says:
> append="mem=144M"
> As my machine contains 144 megs rather than the 64 that Bios has reported
to
> the OS. I place this under the read-only statement.
> Then rerun lilo or simply type lilo and reboot. Type free or do a top and
> you should now see the memory that is really in place.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Eddie Strohmier
> Bonwell Globalnet
> www.bonwell.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ketan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 2:42 PM
> Subject: LILO question
>
>
> > guys,
> > I read somewhere that Linux only recognizes 64MB
> > RAM and that if one has more installed, then the
> > 'mem' parameter in LILO has to be set
> > accordingly.
> > Can someone tell me how to check if Linux
> > recognizes the entire memory that I have and
> > also, how do i check/change this 'mem' LILO
> > parameter ?
> >
> > Thanks
> > ketan
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