Re: [aclug-L] Memory

[Mohammad Islam <sohel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Seth Turner wrote:
> 
> I just added 64M of RAM to my system (giving a total of 128M).  On boot,      
>   bios/cmos(whichever) reads it.
> 
> However, Linux is apparently not aware of the new addition.  I thought I
> remembered something about needing to change something somewhere when there
> was more then 64M of RAM.  Anyone know where to point me on this one?
> 
> A bit of proof of RAM not being read:
> 
> Anichar~$ free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:         64344      17664      46680      15088       3044       7148
> -/+ buffers/cache:       7472      56872
> Swap:        64476          0      64476
> 
> Tia,
> spiff

open your favourite editor and put mem="append=128M"(I think) in
lilo.conf
Then run /sbin/lilo and then reboot.

Refer to lilo.conf man pages.

Later.

Mohammed