Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 May 1998 19:21:31 -0500 (EST) | From | Woody <> | Subject | Re: mem=64MB oh yes! mem=128MB oh no! (2.0.34pre16) |
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Joseph,
You will find that in the recent stable kernels....I would recommend using a devel kernel such as 2.1.97....I have found it to be the most reliable in the devel kernels and it will see all of your memory. I can only say this of course because I don't run a ton of things like many users, companies, etc do, so thus won't encounter too many probs regardless what kernel I use. But if you try the devel's, they should recognize all your memory without having to worry about specifing them at boot time. I have 80 M in my machine and it recognizes it fine.
Cheers,
Woody Security Administrator Localline.com woody@localline.com
On Fri, 22 May 1998, Lluisma wrote:
> I have a Dual PPro with 128MB of memory, 4.1 GB HDD on an Adaptec 2940 controller. > > After installing Red Hat Linux 5.0 last night, I got a copy of the 2.0.34pre16 patch, applied it, uncomment the line SMP=1, compiled a new kernel, made LILO use the new image, and rebooted. Everything went fine but I forgot to specify that I have 128MB of memory. > > So I modified my lilo.conf with an append statement. Sad to say when I rebooted my machine, I got a kernel panic. It says it can't mount the root fs. I booted from a floppy, removed the append statement in my lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo. Again, I rebooted my machine, this time I specified mem=128MB in the LILO boot prompt. It encountered the same problem. > > I restarted the machine. Didn't specify anything at the boot prompt. Everything went fine but the kernel only detects 64MB of RAM. Am I missing something here? Is there a problem somewhere else? > > Joseph Edcel R. Lluisma > jrl@curricula.net > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >
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