Thanks for the advice-- it worked. I hadn't noticed append line seemed to
contain duplications. It wouldn't work until I created a new lable (linux2)
in linuxconf and specified 128 ram. Now the default (linux) recognizes the
right amount of memory.
Thanks Jon
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Appending Ram
> I don't know if it is too long but perhaps it is the two (2)
> copies of
>
> ide2=0xcc00,0xd002 ide3=0xd800,0xdc02
> throwing you off...
>
>
> Perhaps you should copy the linux labeled area to a new
> name, remove the second copy of IDE statements.
> Rerun lilo, boot it, try it, and see what happens...
>
> Bob wrote:
>
> > I've read several posts on memory. Linux only recognises
> > 64mb instead of 128mb of my memory. Below is lilo.conf
> >
> > boot=/dev/hde8
> > map=/boot/map
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > vga=normal
> > default=linux
> > keytable=/boot/us.klt
> > disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80
> > prompt
> > timeout=50
> > message=/boot/message
> > other=/dev/fd0
> > label=floppy
> > unsafe
> > other=/dev/hde1
> > label=dos
> > table=/dev/hde
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz
> > label=linux
> > root=/dev/hde9
> > append="ide2=0xcc00,0xd002 ide3=0xd800,0xdc02 ide2=0xcc00,0xd002
ide3=0xd800,0xdc02 mem=128M"
> > read-only
> >
> > As you can see the append line is rather long. To long?
> >
> > I think the other stuff in the append line refers to my ata66 HD
> >
> > but not sure.Any help Please
> >
> > Thanks Bob
> >
>
>
