I am having a minor/major problem. I have an older Compaq Proliant 2000
with 64 meg of ram and it's not accepting the extra ram and I have added
append="mem=64M" and append="63M" to /etc/lilo.conf and it doesn't seem to
take. Is this a problem with Compaq? Or where do you add the line in
lilo.conf or does it matter or??
Thanks,
Lyle
-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Louis Debert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 12:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] 128 mb mem
Adrian Saidac wrote:
> If does not need it why can see no more than 64M
> UNIX originally was designed to take advantege of RAM memory (HDs were
> too expensive back then)
> The more RAM the better the performance - there is something really
> wrong with Linux if you can not use more than 64M
It has _nothing_ to do with linux itself: linux has no _safe_ way
to know the memory size, except to ask the BIOS (when I say _safe_
I mean, not likely to hang the machine).
So, if you have an older BIOS that doesn't know how to report more
than 64Mb, then you have to use the "mem=xxxx" command line parameter.
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Jean-Louis Debert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
74 Annemasse France
old Linux fan
