On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 05:41:24PM -0600, Vidiot wrote:
> >Try append="mem=128M" instead of append="128M"
> >--Matt
> >> (Here is a snippit from my top)
> >>
> >> 2:54pm up 3 min, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.06, 0.02
> >> 39 processes: 38 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> >> CPU states: 2.5% user, 3.5% system, 0.0% nice, 93.9% idle
> >> Mem: 64076K av, 33872K used, 30204K free, 24872K shrd, 3892K buff
> >> Swap: 265032K av, 0K used, 265032K free 20056K cached
>
> What is more surprising is that no one has mentioned that the append option
> should not be necessary. Unless RH6.1 has taken a step backwards since 6.0,
> since the kernel automatically detects all available memory. It certainly does
> with my motherboard, which has 192 MB installed.
There are some BIOSes that the kernel still does not recognize. Case
in point is many who have upgraded their Abit BP6 BIOSes now have to
use the 'append' whereas with the original BIOS this was not the case.
Go figure ...
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