This is not mandatory that you ALWAYS have to include the LILO
options to
get anything above than 64 MB of ram to work. Its just on some machines,
the ram is not recognised properly either because of flaky RAM chips OR
because of some other reason.
To correct this you can manually specify the amount of RAM in your system
appropriately with LILO.
Best way to do this is to FIRST try the mem= option manually from the
Lilo: prompt by specifying it as a parameter to the image name.
If it works for you put it in lilo.conf and update the MBR if it does not,
it saves you from spoiling your MBR like in the case mentioned at the
beginning of this thread.
VaibhaV
PS: Rajesh Please check your reply-to settings in your mail software.
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Rajesh Fowkar wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:58:26PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
>
> >Questions.
> >1)Why 64MB is only recognised when BIOS reports 128MB? My office machine with
> >256MB works fine with same CD installation and kernel.
>
> We have discussed here so many times that for recognising 128M ram you have to
> put blah blah blah in lilo.conf. But as you say, in our office Server also
> 256MB ram is detected by linux without changing anything in lilo. I am still
> puzzled why is it so ?
>
>
> Regards
>
>
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VaibhaV Sharma
Exocore Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
India
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