[UCLA-LUG] Linux Ram?

[witten@linux.ucla.edu]

On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 01:42:41PM -0800, Ernesto Leon wrote:
> HI i had a slight problem. I recently installed Linux mandrake 7.1 the
> newest one (AIR) and everything went smoothly (say the least). However
> linux only detected 64mgs of ram on my comp. I know i have 128mgs
> because windows 98 detects it as that and i bought it for 128mgs (unless
> i got ripped off ?). Anyway, i heard that the new kernel is suppose to
> support 128mgs without messing around with the lilo.conf file. However i
> dont know whats going on? I added the folowing line to the lilo.conf
> just to make sure that maybe i got a *dud* kernel.
> 
> Is this line right?
> 
> append="ram=128M"
> 
> if so where in the lilo.conf do i add it? Anyhow after adding that to
> lilo i stil get the 64 mgs of ram being displayed in addition my linux
> box slows down! tremendously when i install files or even when i run
> konsoles! is this the ram? Im confused help please..what do i do?
> 
> By the way im running KDE
> 

Did you re-run the lilo binary after you modified lilo.conf so that the
changes were written to your master boot record? I think that some BIOSes
incorrectly report the system's memory, which might be why only 64 megs are
being reported. In Linux, you can check how much memory is detected with the
"free" command.

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Dan Helfman
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