On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Lane Lester wrote: > What command will tell me how much RAM Debian Linux thinks I have?
'free' will do it. The kernel publishes the information in /proc/meminfo. > My BIOS, Win NT, and Win 98 all know I have 128M, but Corel Linux > thinks I have only 64M. I've tried adding the mem= line to lilo.conf, > but it doesn't work for me. The correct incantation is (within the "image" stanza) append="mem=128M" This should either cause a crash (if your memory isn't really 128M) or all 128M should show up. The kernel publishes the commandline parameters in /proc/cmdline. Mine looks like: auto BOOT_IMAGE=ipmasq ro root=341 mem=128M reboot=soft If yours doesn't have "mem=128M" in it like mine, you haven't specified the parameter correctly. Try passing the parameter in from LILO, as in: LILO boot: linux mem=128M
