I think you would need: append="mem=0x8000000"
I personally use: append="mem=128M" Point is quotes and so forth are important :) Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 23 May 2000, Dominic Blythe wrote: > > translation - - > > > > Hola: > > > > Tenemos un servidor con Debian que es un PC clonico, tiene instaladas > > 128 Mb de memoria RAM y la BIOS cuando arranca cuenta las 128 Mb. > > Sin embargo cuando hacemos un free -kt lo que obtenemos es: > > on a pc with 128mb ram, this is the output from free -kt > > > > > total used free shared buffers cached > > Mem: 63528 62332 1196 49252 5736 34080 > > -/+ buffers/cache: 22516 41012 > > Swap: 66524 60 66364 > > Tota: 130052 62492 67560 > > > > assuming that the Swap entry 66524 represents the swap partition, > why can the pc only recognise 64MB of ram? > > > Suponemos que la memoria de swap se refiere a la partici?n de swap, > > con lo que parece que el sistema solo est? reconociendo 64 Mb de las > > 128 Mb instaladas. > > > > En el libro "The Debian Linux User's Guide" en el Appendix 7 apartado > > Arguments le? lo siguiente (que reproduzco, con perd?n): > > [...] > > mem= > > Since the BIOS of most PCs can only report 64 Megabytes there are > > times when the kernel needs to be told that there is more memory than > > this. This argument should be used with great care, since, if you lie > > to the kernel and tell it that it has more address space than it > > actually has, the system will crash miserably as some time in the > > near future. Also make sure that your system does not use the highest > > memory for caching the bios code, as use of this memory by the kernel > > will ultimately crash the system as well. The value given after the > > equal sign should be the highest ram address available to the kernel, > > so a 96 Megabyte system would get an argument like > > "mem=0x6000000". > > [...] > > > > having changed lilo.conf as directed with line mem=0x08000000 (128MB as > hex), > i get Syntax error near line 7 in file /etc/lilo.conf > line 7 is the mem=... line > so how to get it to recognise 128MB ram? > > [i don't get the bit about the guitar - does he mean he doesn't want to > flash > his bios?] > > sorry this mail is so "cacho" > > > Por lo que entend? estos parametros se podian poner en el lilo.conf y > > tomarian efecto despues de ejecutar liloconfig y rearrancar el > > sistema, pero cuando pongo en lilo.conf mem=0x8000000 (valor > > hexadecimal de 128 Mb) y ejecuto liloconfig me aparece el error: > > Syntax error near line 7 in file /etc/lilo.conf > > Que es la linea donde he puesto lo de mem=... > > > > ?Alguien sabe como puedo hacer que el sistema reconozca las 128 Mb?. > > Una posibilidad seria actualizar la BIOS del equipo pero me da miedo > > porque la placa es marca "la guitarra" y no se si la encontar? (si es > > que existe) asi que preferiria hacerlo con Debian (si se puede). > > > > Disculparme por este "cacho mail". > > > > Espero vuestra ayuda. > > Saludos. > > > > -- > > Mecanizados, S. A. > > Inform?tica. Ximo Nadal. > > Avda. Ausias March, 122. E-46026 VALENCIA (SPAIN). > > Tel.: +34 96 373 63 62. Fax: +34 96 373 66 03. > > E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > > Server powered by Debian GNU/Linux > > <http://www.debian.org> > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
