Re: More than 64MB of memory

[Shawn Mattingly <smattin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce Smith wrote:

> Very true, there are warnings about this in the BootPrompt-HOWTO.
> There is one other warning in the howto that should be noted too:
>
>  | NOTE: some machines might use the top of memory for BIOS
>  |  cacheing or whatever, so you might not actually have up
>  |  to the full 128MB addressable.
>
> I read that before I added the "append mem=xxxM" to my lilo.conf back then.
> So, to play it safe, I've actually been running with "append mem=120M" just
> to play it extra safe.  (probably overkill on my part by nuking 8MB)

You shouldn't need to go that far.  If you want to get really specific you could
specify the number in kb instead of Mb and leave off 512k for the BIOS.  I think
this only applies to really old BIOS though.

Shawn