Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

[Ossama Othman]

Hi Kirk,

Hit the shift key before Linux starts booting.  If the prompt still
doesn't show up, you will have to modify your /etc/lilo.conf file to add a
delay for the boot prompt or even force the boot prompt to wait for input
before booting begins.  IIRC, the line in lilo.conf would look something
like:

delay=20

for a delay of two seconds (not 20), meaning that the boot prompt would
wait two seconds before booting begins.  For example, I have a delay of 50
for 5 seconds.  Don't forget to run lilo if you modify your lilo.conf
file.

-Ossama

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Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

[Christophe Broult]

Kirk Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> [Concerning passing boot parameter with a boot disk.]
> 
> Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > If you are just starting out and don't want to mess around
> > with configuration files or just want to experiment, you can manually
> > enter "mem=80M" (don't type the quotes) or whatever amount of RAM you have
> > at the "boot:" line.  You would have to do this each time you boot.  That
> > would be equivalent to 'append="mem=80M"' in your lilo.conf file.  LILO
> > really is the better way to go, as Alex pointed out.
> 
> How do I get the the "boot:" prompt?  I remember seeing it a while
> back, but now the first thing that I see is "Loading...".

You have to boot using LILO. 

> 
> Kirk Hilliard
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Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

[Steve Mayer]

Kirk,

  When you first see LILO appear on the screen, hit the left shift key. 
You should get the boot: prompt.

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Kirk Hilliard wrote:
> 
> [Concerning passing boot parameter with a boot disk.]
> 
> Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > If you are just starting out and don't want to mess around
> > with configuration files or just want to experiment, you can manually
> > enter "mem=80M" (don't type the quotes) or whatever amount of RAM you have
> > at the "boot:" line.  You would have to do this each time you boot.  That
> > would be equivalent to 'append="mem=80M"' in your lilo.conf file.  LILO
> > really is the better way to go, as Alex pointed out.
> 
> How do I get the the "boot:" prompt?  I remember seeing it a while
> back, but now the first thing that I see is "Loading...".
> 
> Kirk Hilliard
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Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

[Kirk Hilliard]

[Concerning passing boot parameter with a boot disk.]

Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you are just starting out and don't want to mess around
> with configuration files or just want to experiment, you can manually
> enter "mem=80M" (don't type the quotes) or whatever amount of RAM you have
> at the "boot:" line.  You would have to do this each time you boot.  That
> would be equivalent to 'append="mem=80M"' in your lilo.conf file.  LILO
> really is the better way to go, as Alex pointed out.

How do I get the the "boot:" prompt?  I remember seeing it a while
back, but now the first thing that I see is "Loading...".

Kirk Hilliard


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RE: 80 MB ram in debian system

[Joel Klecker]

At 14:52 -0500 1998-03-02, Vladislav Papayan x285 wrote:
>I am also planning to add more than 64 mb to my machine.
>However I do not have /etc/lilo.conf. I always boot from
>a floppy disk (when creating a kernel I just do make bzdisk).
>What should I do in that case?

lilo's append option means "append the following arguments to the arguments
passed to the kernel", so you need to pass 'mem=m' to the kernel somehow.

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Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

[Ossama Othman]

> solution - NT boot loader, bootmenu, LILO, loadlin, etc.) you can install
> lilo on the floppy and configure it to boot the kernel located on the hard
> drive.

If you are just starting out and don't want to mess around
with configuration files or just want to experiment, you can manually
enter "mem=80M" (don't type the quotes) or whatever amount of RAM you have
at the "boot:" line.  You would have to do this each time you boot.  That
would be equivalent to 'append="mem=80M"' in your lilo.conf file.  LILO
really is the better way to go, as Alex pointed out.

-Ossama



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Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

[aqy6633]

> I am also planning to add more than 64 mb to my machine.
> However I do not have /etc/lilo.conf. I always boot from
> a floppy disk (when creating a kernel I just do make bzdisk).
> What should I do in that case?

If you bound to boot from floppy for some reason (which is good when you
just start using Linux, after some time, there could be much better
solution - NT boot loader, bootmenu, LILO, loadlin, etc.) you can install
lilo on the floppy and configure it to boot the kernel located on the hard
drive.

Alex Y.

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RE: 80 MB ram in debian system

[Vladislav Papayan x285]

I am also planning to add more than 64 mb to my machine.
However I do not have /etc/lilo.conf. I always boot from
a floppy disk (when creating a kernel I just do make bzdisk).
What should I do in that case?


Thanks,
Vladislav

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>Subject:   Re: 80 MB ram in debian system 
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>On Mon, 02 Mar 1998 10:18:16 CST, "Russ Cook" wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> This weekend, I added some ram to my system.  I now have two 32 MB simms,
>> and two 8 MB simms, giving me a total of 80 MB of ram.  My bios recognizes
>> all ram at bootup, but Linux only recognizes 64 MB.  I think this has been
>> addressed here before, something about a line added to lilo.conf.  But, I
>> don't remember the solution.  Could someone repeat it for me?
>> Thanks very much.
>
>To your image line add the string: append="mem=80M"
>
>--/etc/lilo.conf--
>[..]
>image=/boot/vmlinuz append="mem=80M"
>[..]
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>Don't forget to run lilo when you're done.
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Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

[Bill Leach]

>From the xconf menu:
CONFIG_MAX_16M

This is for some buggy motherboards which cannot properly deal
with the memory above 16M. If you have more than 16MB of 
RAM and experience weird problems, you might want to try Y,
everyone else says N. Note for machines with more that (sic) 64MB of
RAM: in order for the kernel to be able to use the memory above
64 MB, pass the command line option "mem-xxxM" (where xxx is
the memory size in megabytes) to your kernel during boot time.
See the documentation of your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about
how to pass options to the kernel. The lilo procedure is also
explained in the SCSI-HOWTO, available via ftp (user:
anonymous) in sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO. You also
need at least 512KB of RAM cache if you have more than 64MB of
RAM. Some other things to try when experiencing seemingly
random, 'weird' proplems: 1)passing the 'no-hlt' option to the
kernel 2)passing the 'no-387' option to the kernel 3)passing the
'mem=4m' option to the kernel (thereby disabling all but the first
4M of RAM) 4) disabling the cache from you BIOS settings 5)
exchanging RAM chips 6) exchanging the motherboard.


Russ Cook wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> This weekend, I added some ram to my system.  I now have two 32 MB 
> simms,
> and two 8 MB simms, giving me a total of 80 MB of ram.  My bios recognizes
> all ram at bootup, but Linux only recognizes 64 MB.  I think this has been
> addressed here before, something about a line added to lilo.conf.  But, I
> don't remember the solution.  Could someone repeat it for me?
> Thanks very much.
> Russ
> 
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Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

[David Stern]

On Mon, 02 Mar 1998 10:18:16 CST, "Russ Cook" wrote:
> Hi All,
> This weekend, I added some ram to my system.  I now have two 32 MB simms,
> and two 8 MB simms, giving me a total of 80 MB of ram.  My bios recognizes
> all ram at bootup, but Linux only recognizes 64 MB.  I think this has been
> addressed here before, something about a line added to lilo.conf.  But, I
> don't remember the solution.  Could someone repeat it for me?
> Thanks very much.

To your image line add the string: append="mem=80M"

--/etc/lilo.conf--
[..]
image=/boot/vmlinuz append="mem=80M"
[..]
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Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

[Ben Pfaff]

   This weekend, I added some ram to my system.  I now have two 32 MB 
simms,
   and two 8 MB simms, giving me a total of 80 MB of ram.  My bios recognizes
   all ram at bootup, but Linux only recognizes 64 MB.  I think this has been
   addressed here before, something about a line added to lilo.conf.  But, I
   don't remember the solution.  Could someone repeat it for me?

Add 

  append="mem=80M"

to lilo.conf.


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Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

[Alex Yukhimets]

>   This weekend, I added some ram to my system.  I now have two 32 MB 
> simms,
> and two 8 MB simms, giving me a total of 80 MB of ram.  My bios recognizes
> all ram at bootup, but Linux only recognizes 64 MB.  I think this has been
> addressed here before, something about a line added to lilo.conf.  But, I
> don't remember the solution.  Could someone repeat it for me?

append="mem=80M"

Alex Y.
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Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

[Ossama Othman]

Add the following to your lilo.conf and rerun lilo, then reboot:

append="mem=80M"

-Ossama

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