> On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:19:54PM +0100, Joris > Lambrecht wrote: > > i think you should try adding something like > > > > mem="256" > > > > Just to clarify that would be - > append="mem=256M" but.. > > The kernel or bios or whatever takes up part of the first > part of the memory. So if you add the full amount of > RAM to your /etc/lilo.conf the kernel will freak out. Back > off a MB. For example I have 128 MB of RAM and my > lilo.conf line reads - > append="mem=127M"
That append line hasn't been needed since kernel 2.0.36, has it ?? I remember when I first started with Linux and Redhat supplied 2.0.34 or so (Redhat 5.0) and I needed it since I had 128mb RAM and it only saw 64mb. Once I upgraded to 2.0.36, I removed that append line from /etc/lilo.conf and it saw all of memory just fine. Can *parts* of memory be bad, as in the 2nd half ?? Trying "mem=127M", or "mem=63M", and so on might tell something... Regards Hall
