On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Dave Kempe wrote:
> Linux doesn't seem to be detecting all my RAM now.
> It only detects 64MB of 128MB, im running Debian with 2.2.18
> woody with it only recently installed.
> The bios counts up the RAM fine, and windows detects it fine.
> Top only reports 64mb available.
> I've dug around and someone somewhere suggested adding mem=128MB to my
> lilo.conf but that didnt work. And the lilo man pages don't suggest that.
> Every other distro I've had works fine with this RAM :-(
Try
append = "mem=128M"
inb /etc/lilo.conf.
You may even have to do something like
append = "mem=129345K" - with your own exact number of K based on the BIOS
count.
Don't forget to run lilo afrter you do it, to re-synch the boot sector.
DaZZa
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