On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, John W. Reese wrote:
[snip]>
> Here are the specifics:
>
> 1) I experience excessive swapping when several apps are open. My workstation
> has 256 MB of RAM, but 'free' reveals that the OS sees only 64 MB of RAM in
> the 'total' column every time. My swap partition is 128 MB. (This should be
> larger for 256 MB of RAM, I know, but this shouldn't be an issue right now,
> since the OS sees only 64 MB of of RAM.)
>
> 2) I boot RH 7.0 from diskette.
>
> 3) There is only one lilo.conf file on the computer, and it is on the boot
> diskette. It is read fresh at every session, so the memory management line
> should register if it is written correctly.
>
lilo.conf is NOT read when the computer reboots. It is read when you
run the lilo command as root.
>
> 4) Here is how lilo.conf currently is written:
>
> boot=/dev/fd0
> timeout=100
> message=/boot/message
> prompt
> append = "mem=256M"
> image=/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hda7
> initrd=/initrd.img
>
This looks good. Is this file on your floppy, or in /etc? If it is in
/etc, then run "lilo" as root, with the boot floppy in the drive.
If it is on the floppy, then mount the floppy and run
"lilo -C /mnt/floppy/lilo.conf" as root. If your floppy is not mounted
on /mnt/floppy, change the mount path. If your config file in not
lilo.conf and in the root directory of the floppy, change this as well.
Mikkel
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