On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Wilson Tuma wrote: > Would somebody be kind enough to tell me how to make my machine recognize > 256Meg of RAM. > > When I added the ram and did top and did see only 64Meg.
Any reasonably recent kernel (even 2.0.3x) _should_ be able to recognise this without specific assistance. If you are running an earlier 2.0.x kernel (like x < 38) there are reasons why you should consider updating. As others have pointed out, you can force the issue with a "mem=256M" parameter to LILO. Two points: 1) Read the Bootprompt-HOWTO for the lowdown on this. 2) Don't ever tell Linux that it has more memory than is really present - it may take time, but Bad Things (or possibly just one fatally Bad Thing) *will* happen. HTH, Neale.
