On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, John W. Reese wrote:
> Thanks to all of you who responded to my first query. To restate the initial
> question:
>
> I run RH 7.0 on a workstation with 256 MB of RAM. Performance declines after
> awhile due to heavy swapping. I check memory utilization with the 'free'
> command and learn that the system recognizes only 64 MB of RAM (the Linux
> installation default), and it's all used up. The problem is this; how do I
> get beyond the installation default settings and make the OS recognize the
> actual amount of physical RAM available?
>
> I boot Linux from diskette at each session and have only one lilo.conf on the
> entire system -- the one on the diskette. I have added the following line to
> the lilo.conf file, per recommendation of a HOWTO at one of the popular Linux
> sites:
>
> append = "mem=256M"
>
> Eric Clover suggests that I move the 'append' statement from the end of the
> lilo.conf file to the line immediately following the 'prompt' statement. I
> have done so, and the lilo.conf now reads:
>
> boot=/dev/fd0
> timeout=100
> message=/boot/message
> prompt
> append = "mem=256M"
> image=/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hda7
> initrd=/initrd.img
>
> However, after rebooting, 'free' still shows only 63 MB of RAM.
>
> Mikkel Ellertson wonders whether I have rebooted from diskette since the
> change. Yes, indeed I have; I must boot from diskette at each session, and
> there is only one lilo.conf on my system -- it is on the boot diskette.
> There's still only 62 - 63 MB of RAM.
>
I asked if you have run lilo after making the changes to the file.
Remember, changes made to the config file have no affect even if you
reboot, unless you run lilo as root BEFORE you reboot.
>
> Those are the responses so far. This appears to be a sticky question. Any
> further help would be appreciated.
>
> John Reese
>
What does "lilo -v -v -v" show?
Mikkel
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