Re: [newbie] grub and my RAM.
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi fellow Linuxers! I have just upgraded to 7.2. It is most excellent! When I upgraded I changed over to the grub boot loader... I have one problem with grub. I cannot set my RAM. I used to use Lilo and had to use the append "mem=128M" option (in lilo.conf) to cause the kernel to find the whole 128 meg of my ram. Without this it would only find 64 meg :( What I would like to know is how to configure grub to read the full 128 meg of ram. Also I need to know the files I need to edit to do this. With Lilo it was lilo.conf. What is it for grub? Cheers, Gerald S. -- title linux kernel (hd1,4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb6 hdc=ide-scsi -- That's the grub line that loads linux on my system. Just put mem=128M (no 'append' no quotes as in lilo) where I have Isn't supposed to be 128m (small M) or doesn't it make a difference MarkP
Re: [newbie] grub and my RAM.
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi fellow Linuxers! I have just upgraded to 7.2. It is most excellent! When I upgraded I changed over to the grub boot loader... I have one problem with grub. I cannot set my RAM. I used to use Lilo and had to use the append "mem=128M" option (in lilo.conf) to cause the kernel to find the whole 128 meg of my ram. Without this it would only find 64 meg :( What I would like to know is how to configure grub to read the full 128 meg of ram. Also I need to know the files I need to edit to do this. With Lilo it was lilo.conf. What is it for grub? Cheers, Gerald S. -- title linux kernel (hd1,4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb6 hdc=ide-scsi -- That's the grub line that loads linux on my system. Just put mem=128M (no 'append' no quotes as in lilo) where I have 'hdc=ide-scsi'. You can put multiple args on the line, just separate them with a space. Take a look at 'info grub'. It's one of the few man and info pages that's not written like you already understand everything :) Often when Linux can't see all your ram, it denotes a substandard motherboard/bios. Also if you have 'onboard' (built in) items like video, you'll need to subtract the ram they use from system ram. eg, if the video is advertised as 8mb, then you'll prob'ly need to use a 'mem=120M'. -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] grub and my RAM.
Hi fellow Linuxers! I have just upgraded to 7.2. It is most excellent! When I upgraded I changed over to the grub boot loader... I have one problem with grub. I cannot set my RAM. I used to use Lilo and had to use the append "mem=128M" option (in lilo.conf) to cause the kernel to find the whole 128 meg of my ram. Without this it would only find 64 meg :( What I would like to know is how to configure grub to read the full 128 meg of ram. Also I need to know the files I need to edit to do this. With Lilo it was lilo.conf. What is it for grub? Cheers, Gerald S. -- Windows 95/98/NT - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. -- Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com
