Re: Linux only sees half my RAM
Lucky you are - i have 64Mb not 192 both in 2.0 and 2.2 versions. - Original Message - From: Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Viktor Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 12:41 PM Subject: Re: Linux only sees half my RAM I don't know how, I once saw it happen. With a 2.0 all the ram was recognised and the system was stable, with a 2.2 only half was recognised and the system became instable if the ram was set on 128 with lilo (with a 2.3 all the recognised and stable, as far as you can call a 2.3 stable). Ron On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: Ron Rademaker wrote: PS. Editing your lilo.conf could also make your system instable in these kind of situations. Huu? How so? MfG Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HertzSCHLAG: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/hs/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Linux only sees half my RAM
And editing lilo.conf couldn't make linux use all your ram?? On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Alexander Shutov wrote: Lucky you are - i have 64Mb not 192 both in 2.0 and 2.2 versions. - Original Message - From: Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Viktor Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 12:41 PM Subject: Re: Linux only sees half my RAM I don't know how, I once saw it happen. With a 2.0 all the ram was recognised and the system was stable, with a 2.2 only half was recognised and the system became instable if the ram was set on 128 with lilo (with a 2.3 all the recognised and stable, as far as you can call a 2.3 stable). Ron On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: Ron Rademaker wrote: PS. Editing your lilo.conf could also make your system instable in these kind of situations. Huu? How so? MfG Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HertzSCHLAG: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/hs/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Linux only sees half my RAM
Viktor Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ron Rademaker wrote: PS. Editing your lilo.conf could also make your system instable in these kind of situations. Huu? How so? I assume by getting something wrong in there, or by some quirk of your hardware. For example, I have a laptop with 192MB of RAM. However, if I set 192M in lilo.conf it'll lock up every boot. I have to set it to 191M in order for it to boot. I assume it's some oddity with the BIOS reserving some of the RAM or something similiar. The first time I did this and set it to 192M I had to boot from the rescue floppy, change lilo.conf, rerun lilo and reboot. Gary
Re: Linux only sees half my RAM
Ron Rademaker wrote: PS. Editing your lilo.conf could also make your system instable in these kind of situations. Huu? How so? MfG Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HertzSCHLAG:http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/hs/
Re: Linux only sees half my RAM
I don't know how, I once saw it happen. With a 2.0 all the ram was recognised and the system was stable, with a 2.2 only half was recognised and the system became instable if the ram was set on 128 with lilo (with a 2.3 all the recognised and stable, as far as you can call a 2.3 stable). Ron On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: Ron Rademaker wrote: PS. Editing your lilo.conf could also make your system instable in these kind of situations. Huu? How so? MfG Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HertzSCHLAG: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/hs/
Re: Linux only sees half my RAM
Maybe if you would the question u would see that I dont use lilo. if you would look closer at my answer, then you would discover some irony in it ... I tried adding it to loadlin and that didn't work. hmm - that's bad. if even that does not work, then ... ** sorry ... greetings ok, First let me say that I do NOT use lilo so don't tell me edit lilo.conf. I boot with loadlin, have 128mb of RAM but Linux sees only 64mb of it. When I type free it says: let's start a competition: the most asked FAQ :-)=) RTFM! *g* ... or just add mem=128M to your lilo.conf - ehhhmm (*eg*) --- loadlin command line. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.
Linux only sees half my RAM
ok, First let me say that I do NOT use lilo so don't tell me edit lilo.conf. I boot with loadlin, have 128mb of RAM but Linux sees only 64mb of it. When I type free it says: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 64352 62512 1840 26848 4452 27016 -/+ buffers/cache: 31044 33308 Swap: 131000 1688 129312 I am using kernel 2.2.14 ~Sam
Re: Linux only sees half my RAM
What does it say when you're using a 2.3 or a 2.0 kernel? Ron PS. Editing your lilo.conf could also make your system instable in these kind of situations. On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, sam wrote: ok, First let me say that I do NOT use lilo so don't tell me edit lilo.conf. I boot with loadlin, have 128mb of RAM but Linux sees only 64mb of it. When I type free it says: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 64352 62512 1840 26848 4452 27016 -/+ buffers/cache: 31044 33308 Swap: 131000 1688 129312 I am using kernel 2.2.14 ~Sam -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Linux only sees half my RAM
ok, First let me say that I do NOT use lilo so don't tell me edit lilo.conf. I boot with loadlin, have 128mb of RAM but Linux sees only 64mb of it. When I type free it says: let's start a competition: the most asked FAQ :-)=) RTFM! *g* ... or just add mem=128M to your lilo.conf - ehhhmm (*eg*) --- loadlin command line. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.
Re: Linux only sees half my RAM
Maybe if you would the question u would see that I dont use lilo. I tried adding it to loadlin and that didn't work. ~Sam On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: ok, First let me say that I do NOT use lilo so don't tell me edit lilo.conf. I boot with loadlin, have 128mb of RAM but Linux sees only 64mb of it. When I type free it says: let's start a competition: the most asked FAQ :-)=) RTFM! *g* ... or just add mem=128M to your lilo.conf - ehhhmm (*eg*) --- loadlin command line.
Re: Linux only sees half my RAM
sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe if you would the question u would see that I dont use lilo. I tried adding it to loadlin and that didn't work. ~Sam On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: ok, First let me say that I do NOT use lilo so don't tell me edit lilo.conf. I boot with loadlin, have 128mb of RAM but Linux sees only 64mb of it. When I type free it says: let's start a competition: the most asked FAQ :-)=) RTFM! *g* ... or just add mem=128M to your lilo.conf - ehhhmm (*eg*) --- loadlin command line. Maybe if you read the reply you would see that he did address loadlin as well as lilo. The /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/BootPrompt-HOWTO.txt.gz doesn't say it is required, but you might try adding append = mem=128m to your loadlin command line. You might have to make it append = mem=128m, I'm not sure. If it doesn't work then, read the HOWTO mentioned above. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
