Re: Question about Boot Time Options:

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Thu, 23 Jan 1997 14:29:05 +0100


Scott T. Traynor:

: I recently have gotten a machine with 256 megs of ram, and i was
: wondering if one of you could help me?
: basicily linux 2.0.27 is telling me i still have only 64 megs of ram in
: the machine? i heard that there was a boot time option to
: pass through,

See bootparam.7 or the BootPrompt HOWTO.

: and also, my kernel i compiled is way to big, does anyone
: know what size it has to be in K, in order for me to be able to
: use lilo?

If lilo doesn't like your kernel after "make zImage", use "make bzImage".

Andries