128megs of RAM...

Devin Carraway aqua at atlantic.devin.com
Fri Dec 10 12:53:42 PST 1999


On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 12:31:22PM -0800, Kevin Jamieson wrote:
> 'append = "mem=128M"'
> 
> but it still doesn't see it.  The motherboard counts it up to 128 when it
> boots, but still no dice. Does anyone have any ideas?

	That is the correct line -- are you sure it's in the right place,
and not being overridden by a subsequent line in the file?

	A quick way to test: when booting, type it in manually to LILO
("linux mem=128M", adjusting 'linux' if you use a different boot kernel
naming scheme).  That's generally a much easier way to find what boot
options work before putting them in lilo.conf, esp. since it halves the
potential number of reboots needed to test something.  And you know how
Linux people feel about rebooting.  :)


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