On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 12:31:40PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote:
> My friend's laptop has 96M of RAM installed. When it boots, it has a
> message saying that 96M is installed and BIOS setup shows the same thing,
> but when I run "free" under Debian it comes up with:
> Why does it only think there is 64M?
The current 2.0.xx Linux kernels only see up to 64mb of RAM unless you
explicity tell the kernel there is more. I too have 96mb; since I
boot with LILO, I can pass parameters to the kernel in my
/etc/lilo.conf, in the following manner:
label=linux
root=/dev/sda3
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
image=/vmlinuz
append = "mem=96M aic7xxx=ultra"
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Above is essentially the "linux" section of my /etc/lilo.conf file (I
also use LILO to optionally boot another OS). The most important line
is the "append = mem=96M" part, which tells the kernel explicity how
much RAM I have.
Hope this helps!
Matt
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