Re: 80 MB ram in debian system
[Concerning passing boot parameter with a boot disk.] Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you are just starting out and don't want to mess around with configuration files or just want to experiment, you can manually enter mem=80M (don't type the quotes) or whatever amount of RAM you have at the boot: line. You would have to do this each time you boot. That would be equivalent to 'append=mem=80M' in your lilo.conf file. LILO really is the better way to go, as Alex pointed out. How do I get the the boot: prompt? I remember seeing it a while back, but now the first thing that I see is Loading Kirk Hilliard -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 80 MB ram in debian system
Kirk, When you first see LILO appear on the screen, hit the left shift key. You should get the boot: prompt. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirk Hilliard wrote: [Concerning passing boot parameter with a boot disk.] Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you are just starting out and don't want to mess around with configuration files or just want to experiment, you can manually enter mem=80M (don't type the quotes) or whatever amount of RAM you have at the boot: line. You would have to do this each time you boot. That would be equivalent to 'append=mem=80M' in your lilo.conf file. LILO really is the better way to go, as Alex pointed out. How do I get the the boot: prompt? I remember seeing it a while back, but now the first thing that I see is Loading Kirk Hilliard -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 80 MB ram in debian system
Kirk Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Concerning passing boot parameter with a boot disk.] Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you are just starting out and don't want to mess around with configuration files or just want to experiment, you can manually enter mem=80M (don't type the quotes) or whatever amount of RAM you have at the boot: line. You would have to do this each time you boot. That would be equivalent to 'append=mem=80M' in your lilo.conf file. LILO really is the better way to go, as Alex pointed out. How do I get the the boot: prompt? I remember seeing it a while back, but now the first thing that I see is Loading You have to boot using LILO. Kirk Hilliard -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 80 MB ram in debian system
Hi Kirk, Hit the shift key before Linux starts booting. If the prompt still doesn't show up, you will have to modify your /etc/lilo.conf file to add a delay for the boot prompt or even force the boot prompt to wait for input before booting begins. IIRC, the line in lilo.conf would look something like: delay=20 for a delay of two seconds (not 20), meaning that the boot prompt would wait two seconds before booting begins. For example, I have a delay of 50 for 5 seconds. Don't forget to run lilo if you modify your lilo.conf file. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Keys --- Public: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_PUBLIC.asc REVOKED: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_REVOKED.asc -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: 80 MB ram in debian system
At 14:52 -0500 1998-03-02, Vladislav Papayan x285 wrote: I am also planning to add more than 64 mb to my machine. However I do not have /etc/lilo.conf. I always boot from a floppy disk (when creating a kernel I just do make bzdisk). What should I do in that case? lilo's append option means append the following arguments to the arguments passed to the kernel, so you need to pass 'mem=nm' to the kernel somehow. -- Joel Espy KleckerDebian GNU/Linux Developermailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://espy.org/ ftp://ftp.espy.org/pub God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person He selects to receive it. -- Austin O'Malley (1858-1952) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 80 MB ram in debian system
Add the following to your lilo.conf and rerun lilo, then reboot: append=mem=80M -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Keys --- Public: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_PUBLIC.asc REVOKED: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_REVOKED.asc -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 80 MB ram in debian system
This weekend, I added some ram to my system. I now have two 32 MB simms, and two 8 MB simms, giving me a total of 80 MB of ram. My bios recognizes all ram at bootup, but Linux only recognizes 64 MB. I think this has been addressed here before, something about a line added to lilo.conf. But, I don't remember the solution. Could someone repeat it for me? append=mem=80M Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 80 MB ram in debian system
This weekend, I added some ram to my system. I now have two 32 MB simms, and two 8 MB simms, giving me a total of 80 MB of ram. My bios recognizes all ram at bootup, but Linux only recognizes 64 MB. I think this has been addressed here before, something about a line added to lilo.conf. But, I don't remember the solution. Could someone repeat it for me? Add append=mem=80M to lilo.conf. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 80 MB ram in debian system
On Mon, 02 Mar 1998 10:18:16 CST, Russ Cook wrote: Hi All, This weekend, I added some ram to my system. I now have two 32 MB simms, and two 8 MB simms, giving me a total of 80 MB of ram. My bios recognizes all ram at bootup, but Linux only recognizes 64 MB. I think this has been addressed here before, something about a line added to lilo.conf. But, I don't remember the solution. Could someone repeat it for me? Thanks very much. To your image line add the string: append=mem=80M --/etc/lilo.conf-- [..] image=/boot/vmlinuz append=mem=80M [..] -- Don't forget to run lilo when you're done. -- David Stern -- http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 80 MB ram in debian system
From the xconf menu: CONFIG_MAX_16M This is for some buggy motherboards which cannot properly deal with the memory above 16M. If you have more than 16MB of RAM and experience weird problems, you might want to try Y, everyone else says N. Note for machines with more that (sic) 64MB of RAM: in order for the kernel to be able to use the memory above 64 MB, pass the command line option mem-xxxM (where xxx is the memory size in megabytes) to your kernel during boot time. See the documentation of your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel. The lilo procedure is also explained in the SCSI-HOWTO, available via ftp (user: anonymous) in sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO. You also need at least 512KB of RAM cache if you have more than 64MB of RAM. Some other things to try when experiencing seemingly random, 'weird' proplems: 1)passing the 'no-hlt' option to the kernel 2)passing the 'no-387' option to the kernel 3)passing the 'mem=4m' option to the kernel (thereby disabling all but the first 4M of RAM) 4) disabling the cache from you BIOS settings 5) exchanging RAM chips 6) exchanging the motherboard. Russ Cook wrote: Hi All, This weekend, I added some ram to my system. I now have two 32 MB simms, and two 8 MB simms, giving me a total of 80 MB of ram. My bios recognizes all ram at bootup, but Linux only recognizes 64 MB. I think this has been addressed here before, something about a line added to lilo.conf. But, I don't remember the solution. Could someone repeat it for me? Thanks very much. Russ Russell Cook, Engineering Branch WSR-88D Operational Support Facility (405)366-6520 x4237 [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft! See! They do get some things right! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: 80 MB ram in debian system
I am also planning to add more than 64 mb to my machine. However I do not have /etc/lilo.conf. I always boot from a floppy disk (when creating a kernel I just do make bzdisk). What should I do in that case? Thanks, Vladislav -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 02, 1998 12:51 PM To:debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc:The recipient's address is unknown. Subject: Re: 80 MB ram in debian system On Mon, 02 Mar 1998 10:18:16 CST, Russ Cook wrote: Hi All, This weekend, I added some ram to my system. I now have two 32 MB simms, and two 8 MB simms, giving me a total of 80 MB of ram. My bios recognizes all ram at bootup, but Linux only recognizes 64 MB. I think this has been addressed here before, something about a line added to lilo.conf. But, I don't remember the solution. Could someone repeat it for me? Thanks very much. To your image line add the string: append=mem=80M --/etc/lilo.conf-- [..] image=/boot/vmlinuz append=mem=80M [..] -- Don't forget to run lilo when you're done. -- David Stern -- http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 80 MB ram in debian system
I am also planning to add more than 64 mb to my machine. However I do not have /etc/lilo.conf. I always boot from a floppy disk (when creating a kernel I just do make bzdisk). What should I do in that case? If you bound to boot from floppy for some reason (which is good when you just start using Linux, after some time, there could be much better solution - NT boot loader, bootmenu, LILO, loadlin, etc.) you can install lilo on the floppy and configure it to boot the kernel located on the hard drive. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 80 MB ram in debian system
solution - NT boot loader, bootmenu, LILO, loadlin, etc.) you can install lilo on the floppy and configure it to boot the kernel located on the hard drive. If you are just starting out and don't want to mess around with configuration files or just want to experiment, you can manually enter mem=80M (don't type the quotes) or whatever amount of RAM you have at the boot: line. You would have to do this each time you boot. That would be equivalent to 'append=mem=80M' in your lilo.conf file. LILO really is the better way to go, as Alex pointed out. -Ossama -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
