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Re: Need help for figuring out missing memory
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Chan)
Sun Oct 18 03:00:35 1998
From: "Philip Chan" <pschan@hkstar.com>
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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 14:54:32 +0800
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Thanks for your help Kevin.
Just one more question, what is the rational behind
for not letting the kernel to detect the amount of
existing physical memory?
-Phil
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Smith <kevin@mtsu.edu>
To: Redhat mailing list <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Sunday, October 18, 1998 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: Need help for figuring out missing memory
>On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Philip Chan wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently installed caldera open linux 1.3 to my machine which has 96 MB
>> RAM but when I ran 'free' and 'top' only 64 MB was reported. Could
someone
>> help me to fix this problem?
>>
>
>I believe this one is a FAQ, but I'll respond anyway... in order to access
>memory above 64MB, you will need to specify how much memory you have on
>your system to the kernel at boot time.. you can view this by typing
>"linux mem=96M" instead of just "linux" at the lilo prompt... or you can
>make a simple change to your lilo.conf to keep the change...
>
>just add the following to the appropriate section of your lilo.conf and
>re-run lilo to rewrite the boot sector information...
>
>-- CUT --
>append="mem=96M"
>-- CUT --
>
>That should take care of your problem...
>
>-----
>Kevin Smith
>kevin@mtsu.edu
>
>Stenderup's Law:
> The sooner you fall behind, the more time you will have to catch up.
>
>
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