I believe that you just need to add this to your lilo.conf file:
"append=80M"
there is a problem with older BIOS's reporting memory above 64MB.
"... it is easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the
sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all. In other
words... their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their
superficial design flaws."
-- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, on the products
of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sielaff, Bruce" <Bruce.Sielaff at iMcKesson.com>
To: "Twin City Linux Users Group (E-mail)" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 4:01 PM
Subject: [TCLUG:21037] recognizing memory
: I just installed linux (redhat 6.2 - kernel 2.2.14-6.1.1) on an old
Gateway
: (P5-90) which has 80 MB of RAM (2-8MB and 2-32MB SIMs), but linux
apparently
: only sees a portion of it:
:
: from /var/logs/dmesg:
: Memory: 13336K/15360K available (1080K kernel code, 412K reserved, 468K
: data, 64K init, 0K bigmem)
:
: I tried reversing the order of the SIMS, I tried removing the 8MB SIMs and
: only using the 32MB SIMs, but nothing changed. Just prior to installing
: linux, I had Windows NT running on the box and it claimed to see 77MB
during
: bootup.
:
: Any idea what is going on here? How do I get linux to see all of the
: memory? I am new to linux, so maybe I am just overlooking something
: obvious.
:
: Thanks for any help.
:
: Bruce
:
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: Bruce Sielaff
: iMcKesson 952-814-7143
: Bruce.Sielaff at iMcKesson.com
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