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Re: memory probs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Mon Oct 26 13:32:04 1998
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 13:12:46 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Type mem=32M at the LILO: prompt...
Greg Marquis wrote:
> timsoftware@liposome.genebee.msu.su wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Ken Hsu wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have one single 128MB PC100 sdram in my computer, but when i run > >linux
> > > and run 'top', it only reports 64mb memory... does anyone know why > >this
> > > happens?
> > Read man lilo.conf for more details. I don't remember what exactly u > need
> > to write there but it is smth like that:
> > append=128
> > May be I'm mistaken.
> > I hope that'll help you.
> > Tim
>
> Okay... we tried this on a RH 5.1 machine and screwed it up. We put the
> append="mem=128M" in the wrong place, which caused lilo to hang on boot.
>
> Easy, right? Just get the rescue floppy... Well, someone overwrote the
> rescue floppy, so we used the one from the distribution cd, which worked
> fine, except:
>
> When mounting /dev/hda5 (the / partition) /tmp_mnt/etc/lilo.conf and
> /tmp_mnt/sbin/lilo don't even exist! I've never been in this situation
> before and am kind of confused. Have we hosed thing up that well?
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
>
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