Actually, even the kernels up to 2.1.129 need the append line added to lilo.conf. I'm running a PPro machine with 128MB of ram, and unless I add the append line under kernel 2.1.129 top only reports 64MB present.
Sean ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeff Noxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Sunday, December 20, 1998 2:39 PM Subject: Re: 64megs to 192megs of ram >On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 02:33:18PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On 20 Dec, Nuno Carvalho wrote: >> > If you're using lilo you need to add to your lilo.conf the following >> > line: >> > >> > append="mem=128M" >> > >> > I not sure if 2.1.x kernels need that ! > >> Yes, all kernels need it. The 64meg barrier is a lilo thing, not >> kernel afaik. > >2.1.x kernels do not need it. > >2.0.36 does not need it. > >It has nothing to do with LILO. LILO does not determine memory size for >the Linux kernel. > >The BIOS call to determine memory size could originally return a maximum >of 64MB. Recent (i.e. >= Pentium) machines support an alternate BIOS call >that can report >64MB. Newer kernels use this new BIOS call if available. > >Some really old machines with >64MB may still require something like >"mem=128M", but I doubt many old machines support that much RAM anyway. > >Regards, > >Jeff > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
