[SLE] 64+ RAM not recognized

genz1968＠mtu-net.ru

17 Mar 2000 17 Mar '00

20:46

Hello, I'm fortunate that at work, I have SuSE 6.3 installed with 64 MG RAM. Our operator added an additional 32 MG DRAM chip, but it is not being recognized at boot up. The computer boots up with init 2, he checks for RAM, and only 64 is available. I'm not referring to X, as I know that sometimes, the amount of RAM has to be specified XF86Config when greater than 64. Any ideas? Thanks George -- My personal website http://www.firstnethou.com/gz/welcome.htm -- 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/Doku/FAQ/

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muskrat＠texas.net

17 Mar 17 Mar

20:55

On some versions of the kernel, only 64MB are automatically recognized. What I do is add the following line to /etc/lilo.conf append="mem=96M" HTH, Jeffrey Quoting George Zeigler :

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Hello, I'm fortunate that at work, I have SuSE 6.3 installed with 64 MG RAM. Our operator added an additional 32 MG DRAM chip, but it is not being recognized at boot up. The computer boots up with init 2, he checks for RAM, and only 64 is available. I'm not referring to X, as I know that sometimes, the amount of RAM has to be specified XF86Config when greater than 64.

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genz1968＠mtu-net.ru

25 Mar 25 Mar

21:53

Hello, Fri, 17 Mar 2000, ÷Ù ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌÉ:

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On some versions of the kernel, only 64MB are automatically recognized. What I do is add the following line to /etc/lilo.conf

append="mem=96M"

I added this to /etc/lilo.conf and rebooted. Linux still does not see the 96 Mb RAM . Now upon bootup, 96 RAM is recognized in the messages before LILO. So BIOS sees it. I log in as init 2 in the console. Check ram and only 64 is seen. Any ideas? By the way, under chip settings in BIOS, there was some kind of RAM setting for monitor or Windows. It had a choice of 0 32 or 64 and that was it. 64 was selected. Thanks George

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HTH, Jeffrey Quoting George Zeigler :

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Hello, I'm fortunate that at work, I have SuSE 6.3 installed with 64 MG RAM. Our operator added an additional 32 MG DRAM chip, but it is not being recognized at boot up. The computer boots up with init 2, he checks for RAM, and only 64 is available. I'm not referring to X, as I know that sometimes, the amount of RAM has to be specified XF86Config when greater than 64.

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bcoffey＠gemacs.com

22:02

On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, George Zeigler wrote:

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append="mem=96M"

I added this to /etc/lilo.conf and rebooted.

Try this: (1) add append="mem=96M" to /etc/lilo.conf (2) Re-run lilo :) (3) Reboot Buddy Coffey Advanced Electromagnetics -- 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/Doku/FAQ/

genz1968＠mtu-net.ru

27 Mar 27 Mar

17:22

Hello, success! I now have 96 MB. My mistake was not rerunning lilo after editing it. I did /sbin/lilo then rebooted I thought the /etc/lilo.conf file was read automatically at each bootup. George Sun, 26 Mar 2000, ÷Ù ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌÉ:

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On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, George Zeigler wrote:

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append="mem=96M"

I added this to /etc/lilo.conf and rebooted.

Try this:

(1) add append="mem=96M" to /etc/lilo.conf

(2) Re-run lilo :)

(3) Reboot

Buddy Coffey Advanced Electromagnetics

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ahenry＠cusa.dyndns.org

16:22

On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 12:53:53AM +0300, George Zeigler wrote:

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I added this to /etc/lilo.conf and rebooted. Linux still does not see the 96 Mb RAM . Now upon bootup, 96 RAM is recognized in the messages before LILO. So BIOS sees it. I log in as init 2 in the console. Check ram and only 64 is seen. Any ideas? By the way, under chip settings in BIOS, there was some kind of RAM setting for monitor or Windows. It had a choice of 0 32 or 64 and that was it. 64 was selected.

Make sure that the BIOS option "Memory hole at 16MB" is disabled. That fixed this problem for me. -- [-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- adam j henry =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=] | [http: www.heidelberg.edu/~ahenry] [pgp: 0x92B1EDF5] | | [mailto: ahenry@heidelberg.edu] [icq: 5794025] | [-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=] -- 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/Doku/FAQ/

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