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Re: Greater than 64Mb of RAM?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy)
Wed Oct 30 16:41:39 1996

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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 14:30:58 -0700
From: Jeremy <heffner@medinah.televiso.com>
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In message <v02140b04ae9d780cda8d@[198.136.186.10]>Lance Ware mumbled
>Greetings is having greater than 64MB of RAM under linux a problem?
>
>I have a PPro200 with 98Mb, and Linux seems unhappy.
>
>The systems tests it when it starts, but the "free" command
>only shows 64Mb.

Had the same problem.  Easy, add mem=98M to the kernel... from the lilo 
prompt:

lilo: linux mem=98M

or in lilo.conf

        append = "mem=98M"

Works for me... (up to 128MB's now...)

-jeremy
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