[newbie] First...apologies
All, after a bad crash this morning after trying to install my new HD I had to reinstall Mdk 7. I have forgotten the command you add to append section of your lilo.conf file to get it to recognise more than 65 MB of RAM. ANy help? Wayne *** *** Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Humanities and Social Sciences Bond University Gold Coast, Australia *** ***
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Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I start Linux with linux mem=128M it boots and reports 128M of ram. When I boot from the lilo.conf file (which has the mem=128M in the append section), it only boots with 65M. Any reasons why this would be so, and is there a way aroudn this/ Wayne PS: it worked first time last time! === Did you remember to use the quotation marks around "mem=128M"? append="mem=128M" Mike "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." --Winston Churchill Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] First...apologies
:~All, :~after a bad crash this morning after trying to install my new HD I had to :~reinstall Mdk 7. I have forgotten the command you add to append section of :~your lilo.conf file to get it to recognise more than 65 MB of RAM. ANy help? I would like to find out more about the "bad crash" and "had to reinstall LM". I am not avare of any problems which would bring LM 7 in such a messy state that you need to reinstall. thx Denis -- - Mag^H^H^HDr. Denis Havlik http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austria(@ @) tel: (++431) 4277/51179 ---oOO--(_)--OOo-
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Did you run "lilo" after modifying lilo.conf? The changes do not take effect until you run lilo. Just a thought. Original Message Follows From: Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [[newbie] First...apologies] Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 10:44:09 +1000 When I start Linux with linux mem=128M it boots and reports 128M of ram. When I boot from the lilo.conf file (which has the mem=128M in the append section), it only boots with 65M. Any reasons why this would be so, and is there a way aroudn this/ Wayne PS: it worked first time last time! On Sun, 20 Apr 2036, you wrote: Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, after a bad crash this morning after trying to install my new HD I had to reinstall Mdk 7. I have forgotten the command you add to append section of your lilo.conf file to get it to recognise more than 65 MB of RAM. ANy help? Wayne == If it's necessary, add append="mem=128M" You might want to try booting first with linux mem=128 to be certain that it will work with that number. HTH, Mike "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -Benjamin Frankilin Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. -- *** *** Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Humanities and Social Sciences Bond University Gold Coast, Australia *** *** __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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Michael, Yes, the quotation marks are around the 128M and i can't think for the life of me why it doesn't boot with the lilo.conf file. If i do it manually, it will boot, if it try to boot automatically from lilo.conf it will not work with my 128M. It did this previously with 128M but for some reason with this install will not. I am really confused at this point why this happens. Cheers Wayne On Sun, 20 Apr 2036, you wrote: Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I start Linux with linux mem=128M it boots and reports 128M of ram. When I boot from the lilo.conf file (which has the mem=128M in the append section), it only boots with 65M. Any reasons why this would be so, and is there a way aroudn this/ Wayne PS: it worked first time last time! === Did you remember to use the quotation marks around "mem=128M"? append="mem=128M" Mike "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." --Winston Churchill Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. -- *** *** Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Humanities and Social Sciences Bond University Gold Coast, Australia *** ***
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Wayne wrote: Michael, Yes, the quotation marks are around the 128M and i can't think for the life of me why it doesn't boot with the lilo.conf file. If i do it manually, it will boot, if it try to boot automatically from lilo.conf it will not work with my 128M. It did this previously with 128M but for some reason with this install will not. I am really confused at this point why this happens. Cheers Wayne On Sun, 20 Apr 2036, you wrote: Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I start Linux with linux mem=128M it boots and reports 128M of ram. When I boot from the lilo.conf file (which has the mem=128M in the append section), it only boots with 65M. Any reasons why this would be so, and is there a way aroudn this/ Wayne PS: it worked first time last time! === Did you remember to use the quotation marks around "mem=128M"? append="mem=128M" Mike "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." --Winston Churchill Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. -- *** *** Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Humanities and Social Sciences Bond University Gold Coast, Australia *** *** Do you have any other items that you're "append"ing? Seems to me I recall you needed to keep the appends on the same line ie append="mem=128M","something_else","more_stuff" although I don't recall the exact format. You can check the archives though as it was discussed SEVERAL weeks back. -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam... No windows, no gates. Apache inside
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Make sure that there is only one append line in lilo.conf. I couldn't get it to work in mine because it already had an append line. Here is how I got it to work. Lilo.conf had an append line of: append="ide=scsi" (for CD burner). I edited the line to read: "append="ide=scsi mem=128" , ran lilo, rebooted and all is well. ---Mark Irving--- - Original Message - From: Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 9:59 PM Subject: Re: [Re: [[newbie] First...apologies]] Michael, Yes, the quotation marks are around the 128M and i can't think for the life of me why it doesn't boot with the lilo.conf file. If i do it manually, it will boot, if it try to boot automatically from lilo.conf it will not work with my 128M. It did this previously with 128M but for some reason with this install will not. I am really confused at this point why this happens. Cheers Wayne On Sun, 20 Apr 2036, you wrote: Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I start Linux with linux mem=128M it boots and reports 128M of ram. When I boot from the lilo.conf file (which has the mem=128M in the append section), it only boots with 65M. Any reasons why this would be so, and is there a way aroudn this/ Wayne PS: it worked first time last time! === Did you remember to use the quotation marks around "mem=128M"? append="mem=128M" Mike "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." --Winston Churchill Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. -- *** *** Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Humanities and Social Sciences Bond University Gold Coast, Australia *** ***
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Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael, Yes, the quotation marks are around the 128M and i can't think for the life of me why it doesn't boot with the lilo.conf file. If i do it manually, it will boot, if it try to boot automatically from lilo.conf it will not work with my 128M. It did this previously with 128M but for some reason with this install will not. I am really confused at this point why this happens. Cheers Wayne Was the edit done as root? Did you then run /sbin/lilo? If you don't run /sbin/lilo from a command line, the changes will be ignored. Mike ~~~ "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." --Tom Waits ~~~ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] First...apologies
For 128 Megs of ram, for example image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="mem=128M" read-only .. On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Wayne mewed: All, after a bad crash this morning after trying to install my new HD I had to reinstall Mdk 7. I have forgotten the command you add to append section of your lilo.conf file to get it to recognise more than 65 MB of RAM. ANy help? Wayne *** *** Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Humanities and Social Sciences Bond University Gold Coast, Australia *** *** -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.penguinpowered.com
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the append=mem=XXX has to be under the configuration for the Linux kernel image. and don't forget to run lilo -v after altering lilo.conf "Knowledge is Power" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: remove "NOSPAM" to email me. - Original Message - From: Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 7:44 PM Subject: Re: [[newbie] First...apologies] When I start Linux with linux mem=128M it boots and reports 128M of ram. When I boot from the lilo.conf file (which has the mem=128M in the append section), it only boots with 65M. Any reasons why this would be so, and is there a way aroudn this/ Wayne PS: it worked first time last time! On Sun, 20 Apr 2036, you wrote: Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, after a bad crash this morning after trying to install my new HD I had to reinstall Mdk 7. I have forgotten the command you add to append section of your lilo.conf file to get it to recognise more than 65 MB of RAM. ANy help? Wayne == If it's necessary, add append="mem=128M" You might want to try booting first with linux mem=128 to be certain that it will work with that number. HTH, Mike "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -Benjamin Frankilin Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. -- *** *** Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Humanities and Social Sciences Bond University Gold Coast, Australia *** *** __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
