I just built another linux box for my mother ;o)
I bought the parts they kicked me down a free 32MB of PC-100 ram
Now, her A7V box uses the PC-133 Ram and this free stick is PC-100,
I decided I want the 32MB stick for MY asus P5A-B SS7 AT (form) mainboard
I have 128MB in my P5A-B currently, so I put that stick in and the memory says
163840k acording to my bios.
Then I try to boot and I get kernel panic. (no init levels left)
I tried
linux init 3 mem=160M
linux
linux init 3
linux mem=160M
I ended up taking the chip out.
Also as a side note: I notice that windows98 craps out with that chip in
there too. it won't start in any mode at all
I noticed in all these other discussions that someone said to put this in
the /etc/lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo
append=" mem=127M hdd=ide-scsi"
first off, my original install[s] and update[s] and upgrade[s] all detected
the 128MB no problem and I didn't have that line in the lilo.conf
second, did someone make a typo in the above saying 127M instead of 128M?
third, I wonder if i add 128 + 32 = 160 and then my /etc/lilo.conf should
look like this:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
default=linux
keytable=/boot/us.klt
lba32
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hdc14
append=" hdd=ide-scsi"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux160
root=/dev/hdc14
append=" mem=160M hdd=ide-scsi"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux-nonfb
root=/dev/hdc14
append=" hdd=ide-scsi"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=failsafe
root=/dev/hdc14
append=" hdd=ide-scsi failsafe"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=win_98
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/hdc1
label=dos_98
table=/dev/hdc
map-drive=0x80
to=0x81
map-drive=0x81
to=0x80
and last: what EXACT steps do I need to do to add this extra ram?
thanks for your time.
