[SLE] Why doesn't my added memory show up?
Hi, I have a box running SuSE 6.4. I just popped in a 256 Meg DIMM. I had a 128 Meg DIMM. The problem is, Linux says I still only have 128 Meg. What's up with that? Do I need to tell Linux something? I didn't think so... The BIOS recognizes the full SIMM without difficulty, and the memory test runs ok at bootup. I have an Abit BH6 mobo, v 1.01. Bios is dated something around 6/28/00 (I just updated it a few weeks ago). Could it by my mobo, or some BIOS settings? The DIMM came out of another machine, where Win98 had recognized it adequately. -- -Mike Mike@Schwager.com P.S. dmesg | more Linux version 2.2.14 (root@Pentium.suse.de) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (releas e)) #1 Fri Mar 17 11:59:50 GMT 2000 Detected 451035667 Hz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 901.12 BogoMIPS Memory: 127560k/131072k available (1416k kernel code, 412k reserved, 1620k data, 64k init, 0k bigmem) Dentry hash table entries: 16384 (order 5, 128k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k) Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 00 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Michael Schwager wrote:
Hi, I have a box running SuSE 6.4. I just popped in a 256 Meg DIMM. I had a 128 Meg DIMM. The problem is, Linux says I still only have 128 Meg. What's up with that? Do I need to tell Linux something? I didn't think so...
The BIOS recognizes the full SIMM without difficulty, and the memory test runs ok at bootup. I have an Abit BH6 mobo, v 1.01. Bios is dated something around 6/28/00 (I just updated it a few weeks ago). Could it by my mobo, or some BIOS settings?
The DIMM came out of another machine, where Win98 had recognized it adequately.
For a technical explanation look at: http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/ramdetect.html It's everything to do with your BIOS... and there's nothing you can do but add the line "men=128M" to your /etc/lilo.conf (and re-run lilo), or wait for new kernels... Alvaro Novo SuSE 6.4 Kernel 2.2.16 KDE 2 - Beta 4 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
You have to pass the parameter mem=256M to lilo as an additional parameter (you should have been doing this for 128M also). You should be able to make the change in the Lilo section of Yast1. regards, Adi. On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Michael Schwager wrote:
Hi, I have a box running SuSE 6.4. I just popped in a 256 Meg DIMM. I had a 128 Meg DIMM. The problem is, Linux says I still only have 128 Meg. What's up with that? Do I need to tell Linux something? I didn't think so...
The BIOS recognizes the full SIMM without difficulty, and the memory test runs ok at bootup. I have an Abit BH6 mobo, v 1.01. Bios is dated something around 6/28/00 (I just updated it a few weeks ago). Could it by my mobo, or some BIOS settings?
The DIMM came out of another machine, where Win98 had recognized it adequately. -- -Mike Mike@Schwager.com
P.S. dmesg | more Linux version 2.2.14 (root@Pentium.suse.de) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (releas e)) #1 Fri Mar 17 11:59:50 GMT 2000 Detected 451035667 Hz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 901.12 BogoMIPS Memory: 127560k/131072k available (1416k kernel code, 412k reserved, 1620k data, 64k init, 0k bigmem) Dentry hash table entries: 16384 (order 5, 128k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k) Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 00
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