I have the same problem but I don't use lilo...only loadlin. I have 256mb of ram but linux only sees it as 64mb. How can I make it use the whole lot? Thanks!
append="mem=80M" add this to your /etc/lilo.conf and 96M for the other The bios is used to report the size of ram to lilo which passes it on to the kernel. On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Frans Legdeur wrote:
Hi,
I've got a strange problem on two of my machines. Upgraded one Compaq Prosignia 300 from 16 Mb to 80 Mb by adding 2 x
32
Mb. Did run through the Compaq setup and it shows me 80 Mb.
Allthough, running SuSE 5.3 linux, only the first 16 Mb is shown. I did recompile the kernal, but still it sticks at 16 Mb.
My second machine is an dual Pentium 133, which holds 96 Mb, will only see 64 Mb as max under SuSE 5.3. On both machines I do see the following message at startup:
Loaded 4245 symbols from /System.map. Symbols match kernel version. klogd 1.3-0, log source = /proc/kmsg started. <4>Memory: sized by int13 088h <4>Console: 16 point font, 400 scans <4>Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63) <4>pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000ffee0 <4>pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xf0000 <4>pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf005e <4>Probing PCI hardware. <4>Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 60.01 BogoMIPS <4>Memory: 14696k/16384k available (768k kernel code, 384k reserved, 536k data)
What you can see is two things, first the Memory sixed by Int13 088h, which gets the memory size from the bios. and second the Memory: 14696k/16384k available, so no 80 Mb.
Can you manualy set this somewhere or do I have to think of more serious work???
Regards,
Frans.
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