[expert] Re: [newbie] Linux Does not see all my memory.
> "Jonathan S." wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I have 164megs of memory, I have read alot of the post regarding the > > append line to put in lilo and I have done this. However Mandrake 7.0 > > still only sees 64megs of my memory, According to the memory information > > diags in linux. Can Someone Please show me the correct syntax for the > > the append line and where it should go, attached is a copy of my lilo > > config. I would appreciate honest replies, Please don't reply with > > reading the Man pages. As I have read alot of documents and newgroup > > post and have done what was suggested, however I think I am missing > > something. Thanks for your help... > > > > Jonathon, I spent hours last week trying to get 128, 1-64M, 2-32's, recognized in my Mandrake machine. Someone on this group, Pi I think, told me that can happen if the memory is mismatched. That turned out to be the problem in my case. From my experience, all the appends in the world wont help if that is the problem. Interestingly, the inferior windows problem was happy with it, so I have 96 in each of my linux and the kids windows machines. FWIW, Gene
[expert] Re: [newbie] Linux Does not see all my memory.
Jonathanyou can only have one append line per boot image. The line is placed where it should be by default and if there is nothing to append than it looks like this: append = "" you can then add, in between the ""'s, any appends needed for your setup, multiple appends are seperated by a space. See below: boot = /dev/hda timeout = 50 prompt message = /boot/message default = linux vga = normal read-only map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b keytable=/boot/us.klt image = /boot/vmlinuz label = linux append = "hdc=ide-scsi mem=164M" root = /dev/hda5 other = /dev/fd0 label = floppy unsafe Alan "Jonathan S." wrote: > > Hello, > > I have 164megs of memory, I have read alot of the post regarding the > append line to put in lilo and I have done this. However Mandrake 7.0 > still only sees 64megs of my memory, According to the memory information > diags in linux. Can Someone Please show me the correct syntax for the > the append line and where it should go, attached is a copy of my lilo > config. I would appreciate honest replies, Please don't reply with > reading the Man pages. As I have read alot of documents and newgroup > post and have done what was suggested, however I think I am missing > something. Thanks for your help... > > -- > boot = /dev/hda > timeout = 50 > prompt > message = /boot/message > default = linux > vga = normal > append = "append "mem=164M"" > read-only > map=/boot/map > install=/boot/boot.b > keytable=/boot/us.klt > image = /boot/vmlinuz > label = linux > append = "hdc=ide-scsi" > root = /dev/hda5 > other = /dev/fd0 > label = floppy > unsafe
