Re: Unidentified subject!

[Bruce Damkoehler <bfdamkoehler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott Thurmond wrote:

> On my system (Mandrake 7.0), I have 128M of ram but it only recognizes 64.
> This is what my lilo.conf file looks like.
>
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> vga=normal
> default=linux
> keytable=/boot/us.klt
> prompt
> timeout=50
> message=/boot/message
> other=/dev/fd0
>        label=floppy
>        unsafe
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
>        label=linux
>        root=/dev/hda5
>        append="mem=127M"
>        read-only
>
> Should this work or should I be looking somewhere else?
>
> Just for information, I am running it on an AMD k6-2 550MHz cpu.
> -Scott
>
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This looks fine, although I use 128M instead of 127M in my lilo.conf.

Is this the lilo that you are using? By this I mean, have you run lilo after
adding the "mem=127M" to your lilo.conf? If so,  did it report any errors? If
so, fix them and try it again.

What  does /var/log/messages have in after a boot?  The amount of memory that
the kernel finds at boot time is on a line that has "Memory:" on it.