[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux Memory Issue

[Jonathan Brugge]

Maybe your problem is already solved by the previous poster, but this may 
make things a bit more clear if needed.
If you run lilo from your boot-HD, you have to add the line append="mem=96M" 
to your /etc/lilo.conf.
If running from a bootdisk, edit the file /mnt/floppy/etc/lilo.conf (or 
whatever dir your floppy is mounted on) in the same way.
If you're using loadlin, you can edit the config.sys (if you edited it to 
get a bootmenu) and add append="mem="96M" to the line that calls loadlin. If 
you just call loadlin from windows, add this as a flag to the command.
It may be a good idea to test things beforehand (when using lilo, not needed 
with loadlin). You can do this by typing at the bootmenu of lilo: linux 
mem=128M. This will boot with that setting, but without changing the config 
file.
One last thing: make sure you NEVER specify more mem than you have, this 
will cause a serious crash!

Jonathan Brugge


>From: "LinuxGrl" <linuxgrl at stonemedia.com>
>Reply-To: discuss at ntlug.org
>To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
>Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Linux Memory Issue
>Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:02:40 -0500
>
>I just swapped my ATX for an AT mainboard and now I am only able to detect
>15 of my 96 megs of RAM. My bios picks up all 96 megs... but once I am in
>Gnome (Enlightenment) then only 15 are detected and I am just crawling...  
>I
>am running Mandrake 7.1 with 98 megs of ram (3 sticks of 32 megs). I have 
>an
>IDE boot drive (10gigs) and 6 SCSI drives... The mainboard is the same EPOX
>board... and all the hardware is the  same. The swap over actually went
>fairly easily... well except for the RAM issue... Any suggestions?
>
>LinuxGrl
>
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