[NBLUG/talk] Memory

Micxz micxz at slashdomain.com
Thu May 27 17:02:31 PDT 2004


> Try passing the amount of memory to the kernel at boot.
> In lilo you'd add an append line:
> append = "mem=480M"
> 

When the first chip went bad I had added mem=128M. I forgot all about 
this when the new one came. So I took all references to mem out of 
lilo.conf and rebooted. Now all RAM reads correct.

micxz at neptune:~> a=`ls -la /proc/kcore | awk '{print $5}' | tr -d 
''`;echo $(($a/1024/1024));
479

Thanks Troy.

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Micxz




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