[ltp] RedHat 8 on 600E and reported RAM

[Andrey Yurovsky]

Thanks, I did not know about that and I didn't think to look at dmesg...
it reports "191MB LOWMEM" available so I assume now that Linus does in
fact see 192MB and the kernel is using the difference.  Thanks!

   -Andrey

On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 21:58, Paul Kimoto wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 05:13:35PM -0800, Andrey Yurovsky wrote:
> > thanks, I forgot to mention that I use Grub.  What does one do in this
> > case?
> 
> In the GRUB configuration file (menu.lst or whatever your distribution
> likes to call it), look for the line(s) that say(s)
> 
> kernel	/path/to/the/kernelimage
> 
> and change that to
> 
> kernel	/path/to/the/kernelimage mem=WHATEVERHUGENUMBER
> 
> However ...
> 
> > On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 17:12, zongliang li wrote:
> >> 	add the line to you lilo.conf
> >> append="mem=192M"
> 
> >>> On my 600E I have 192MB of RAM, and Windows sees all of it.  running 
> >>> free -m
> >>> reports 186MB of RAM (and top also thinks it has the same amount).
> 
> ... these utilities report the memory detected MINUS the amount used
> by the kernel (then rounded down, possibly), so 186 MB might be right.  
> To see the amount detected, look in the output of "dmesg" for the line
> that starts with "Memory".
-- 
Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@thedotcommune.com>