OK so if it is a new machine (in this case is a 11/99 BIOS - ABIT board,
the addition to the lilo.config is not required
This is common knowledge - my question is HOW I CAN MAKE THIS LINUX crap
to recognize more than 64M.????
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
>
> Wojtek Piecek wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 12:53:36PM +0200, Lasse Kristian Gustafsson wrote:
> >
> > > I heard that mandrake needs line: append="mem=128M"
> > > in to /etc/lilo.conf if computer haves more than 64mb.
> > > I have 128mb mem and i dont have that line in my conf
> > > but still "top" shows that i have 128mb of mem + swap ?
> >
> > Mandrake (here: kernel) need that line, if you have old (or very old)
> > motherboard, which can't correctly report memory size.
> >
> > New machines don't need this line.
> >
> > --
> >
> > --w
