Got it going.... seeing mem? Still no joy
Dan Christopherson
linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Mon, 07 Jun 1999 10:08:05 -0500
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Wow, you _did_ find a way to type that square!
What that original message looked like to me (describing for fear of
more character set issues) was that you need an equal sign ('=', if that
didn't get garbled) between the mem and the number.
danch
"Michael B. Sayer" wrote:
>
> My lilo file now looks like this. I changed the line to read
> append="mem191M". After running /sbin/lilo I still get no joy. Linux
> still reckons I've only 64 meg of ram. I'm checking out the mem status by
> using "free" at the prompt.
>
> boot=/dev/hda3
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeoutP
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hda3
> read-only
> append="mem191M"
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=dos
> table=/dev/had
>
> Some of you who have replied are suggesting I need a "square" symbol for
> what seems like the 1st two digits:
>
> append="mem5M"
>
> this would be for 195 meg of ram..........
>
> NT sees the mem fine.............. so I don't think I've got any loose chips
> ;-)
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Michael
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bm@bms.softwarezentrum.de [mailto:bm@bms.softwarezentrum.de] On Behalf
> Of Frank 'Crash' Edwards
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 6:25 PM
> To: linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
> Subject: Re: Got it going.... seeing mem?
>
> On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, fburke wrote:
> > Michael,
> >
> > Once you added the change to the lilo file did you compile it with the
> lilo
> > command?
>
> Simpler than that. He doesn't have 196mb, he has 192mb. The 196 that he
> thinks he has is what the TP displays during the power-up sequence, but
> it's measure in 1000 bytes, not 1024 bytes. :-)
>
> Change the lilo line to "191M" and try it again. (I know, 'cuz my TP 770X
> has 192mb of RAM also.)
>
> As a side issue, it seems that "191M" works but "191m" doesn't. Is the
> kernel really case-sensitive on this point? Seems a little nit-picky to
> me...
>
> > -Fred-
> >
> > "Michael B. Sayer" wrote:
> >
> > > After a lot of reading and compiling the extra bit for XF86 and fiddling
> > > with my XFConfig, I now have it all up and running - well the x windows
> > > (kde) at least! I have to say a big thank you to all, for the pointers
> and
> > > the web resources for the TP. I'm not sure how long it would have taken
> me
> > > otherwise! It was worth it in the end. Linux is lovely!
> > >
> > > However I don't seem to be able to get Linux to see all of my RAM (196
> meg).
> > > I've included my lilo file (small that it is). I've included the
> append=
> > > line and I ran /sbin/lilo and rebooted. No joy. I'd be grateful for
> any
> > > comments:
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > Michael
>
> Ciao.
> --
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>
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>
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