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Re: Memory
Forgive me for I am a newbie! All I did was change the lilo.conf file and
rebooted. Is there something else I need to do? You mentioned "running
lilo". Type lilo from the command line after making my change?
Thanks
-Scott
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>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.
>
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