Try recompiling the kernel with 1G RAM support
-shyam
At 03:52 PM 1/31/2001 +0530, you wrote:
>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
> >
> >
>
>--
>
>VaibhaV Sharma
>Exocore Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
>Bangalore
>India
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