rj enscribed thusly:
> One more data point to the problem. Just for grins at boot I entered
> at the boot: promt linux mem=128M. After finishing the boot I looked
> at the output from top and the system was addressing all 128MB of
> RAM. This is clearly not a long term solution but maybe it will
> help in getting there.
> It was suggested that the "append" line be moved to just after the
> "install" line but that did not help. I also tired putting it the
> first line in the file and that did not help either.
That should have worked. Did you run "lilo" after making the
change? You always have to run lilo as a command, any time the lilo.conf
file is altered.
> Anyway any suggestions greatly appreciated!
>
> On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, rj wrote:
>
> > I have installed RedHat 6.0 on a system with 128MB of RAM. At boot the
> > system does a mem check and sees all the RAM (as does NT4.0). I have
> > added append="mem=128M" (thanks Ray) to /etc/lilo.conf and that has
> > not helped. I will include a copy of the file below and the first few
> > lines of output from the "top" command.
> >
> > How can I get the system to see all 128MB of RAM?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > [root@localhost /root]# cat /etc/lilo.conf
> > boot=/dev/hda
> > map=/boot/map
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > prompt
> > timeout=50
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
> > append="mem=128M"
> > label=linux
> > root=/dev/hda6
> > read-only
> >
> > >From top:
> >
> >
> > 2:00am up 38 min, 5 users, load average: 0.08, 0.04, 0.05
> > 84 processes: 82 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> > CPU states: 6.0% user, 4.2% system, 0.0% nice, 89.6% idle
> > Mem: 63200K av, 61580K used, 1620K free, 74176K shrd, 1588K buff
> > Swap: 133016K av, 524K used, 132492K free 27436K cached
> >
> >
>
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