Re: Memory errors with 64MB RAM?

Riley Williams (rhw@bigfoot.com)
Sat, 30 May 1998 00:18:45 +0100 (BST)


Hi there.

> Hi, my machine have 128M memory too. my machine BIOS can get it.But
> when i restart my machine, linux report the memory only have 64M .
> So i edit file /etc/lilo.conf : add a line : append = "mem=128M"
> after the line "boot = /dev/hda" , then rebuild my kernel and
> reboot , it is ok!

Note that I did say SOME machines have BIOS's that exhibit this
behaviour. Like you say, there are some that don't, and this behaviour
does NOT appear to be specific to any one manufacturer, I've met it
with both AMI and Award BIOS chips...

Best wishes from Riley.

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