memory

Chris Midkiff chris at datacaptech.com
Thu Nov 15 14:26:43 CST 2001


MessageRichard's comment should fix the problem, but I was wondering...

Are you by chance running an Athlon or Duron with DDR ram?  I have seen this
problem with DDR SDRam and the SIS and ALi chipsets, but not with the AMD
(761) one.  Has anyone else had the same experience?

Chris Midkiff

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Meeker [mailto:rmeeker at kc.rr.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 11:07 PM
To: 'JCotterman'; kclug at kclug.org
Subject: RE: memory

Some of the newer bioses that support the high density RAM seem to reek
havoc with the linux kernel when using lilo.  In short, the kernel becomes
confused and only sees (or addresses) 64 Megz of RAM.  Anyway, now that you
are bored with the background, you can fix it by adding the line:

append = "mem=512mb"

into your lilo.conf file.  Just remember to reparse your lilo.conf file by
running lilo from the command prompt.

-----Original Message-----
From: JCotterman [mailto:jeff at gurucomputers.org]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 9:26 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: memory

Can anyone tell me why my Red Hat 6.2 box only shows that I have 62mb ram
when I have 512mb installed?
I appreciate the help
Jeff





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