On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 12:09:43PM -0800, William Heindl wrote: > > I am running slink on an IBM 560Z with 128Meg of RAM. Only 64Meg are > being seen (as evidenced from doing "dmesg"). Now, I have seen in > various HOWTOs that this is expected, and the solution is to build the > kernel with "newmem" set. However, I'm puzzled. Two guys at my > office built their systems using the same set of floppies and they see all > 128Meg in their machines without doing anything special. The > difference seems to be that they are not using laptops. Is this > something peculiar to the laptop version of the Pentium II? Is there > step by step documentation somewhere to help me through the kernel > build required for this fix? >
I think this is not laptop specific. For Linux kernel versions 2.0.x you need to enter "mem=128M" at the lilo boot prompt, or to put `append "mem=128M"' (or however many megs of RAM you have) in your /etc/lilo.conf file in the stanza that contains your Linux bootable setup; see 'man lilo' for more information about this. You don't need this with more recent kernels (>2.2.x); maybe the guys at your office are using this. Hope this help... -- David
