On Wed, 24 May 2000, Andrei Mircea wrote:
<-]Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 11:08:57 +0200
<-]From: Andrei Mircea
<-]To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
<-]Subject: [SLE] correctly recognizing the RAM
<-]
<-] I acquired a new motherboard and installed it. However, the
<-]2-2-13 kernel I tried on it sees only 64M of RAM instead of the 128 which
<-]are present.
<-] I can compel it to see the whole memory by using the old method
<-]("append mem=128M" at boot time), but I wonder why it does not see it
<-]automagically since the same linux system sees 128M on some other boards I
<-]have, without any append.
Andrei,
This may not be the solution, but the correct syntax for the append line
in lilo.conf is append="mem=128M" and you gotta run lilo after this.
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