Francisco Neira wrote: > Hi all, > > Taking a closer look to the output of "free" and "top" on a Compaq > Proliant 3000 (oldie), noted that the kernel is reporting just about > 16MB instead of the 256MB recognized by the BIOS at POST. > > My first action was to make some changes in lilo.conf (and running lilo, > of course). I 'd placed the well known append="mem=256M" in different > lines of lilo.conf with no luck. > > As a desperate measure typed linux mem=256M at the "boot:" prompt with > no avail: free always report 16MB :-( > > RedHat 7.1, original kernel version. > > Any suggestion will be highly appreciated. > > Regards > >
This worked: append="mem=240M@16M" Why? I have no clue! but several articles denoting things such as append="mem=256M@1M" were inspirational :-))) Regards -- Francisco Neira B. Administrador de Red Defensoria del Pueblo Lima, Peru, -05:00 UTC -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
