On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Alfredo Macias wrote:
> Hi.
> I have been trying to install linux 7.0 unsuccessfully. This is my problem:
>
> I only had 16 meg of RAM on my system for windows, I removed all the
> RAM modules and installed a new 64meg RAM module.
> I tried installing linux, at the beginning the installation screen said that
> I had low memory, so it turned swapping on immediately.
> Linux installed ok except that it was awfully slow, then it started
> Giving me a bunch of errors when trying to open any windows(i.e. terminal).
>
> When I typed free, it said that only 13 megs total memory are recognized.
> I was trying to change my lilo.conf file, but any attempt to open a window
> Fails due to low memory. I tried ctr-alt-backspace to kill X, but it
> Comes back immediately and won't let me go to text mode so I could
> Change lilo.conf to add: append = "mem=64M"
> How can I:
> Stop X temporarily without it coming back immediately when I kill it.
> Force linux to recognize my 64 megs at startup. (bios sees 64 megs ok)
> Prevent X from starting automatically at startup.
>
"linux 3" at the LILO prompt. This will force runlevel 3
(console only) Also, some machines will NOT report the
correct memory to linux, and the only way to make it get
the correct memory count to linux is to put the memory
count in LILO.CONF.
John
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