Re: [Slightly OT] Memory reporting

Thanks to everyone who suggested mem=224M as a kernel parameter - after botching a grub install on not one but *two* machines consecutively, this works fine. Tom Thomas Cook wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a machine that I'm playing with the memory in. It has 1x128MB, > 1x64MB and 1x32MB sticks in i

Re: [Slightly OT] Memory reporting

On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:51:58AM +1030, Thomas Cook wrote: > Hi, > > I have a machine that I'm playing with the memory in. It has 1x128MB, > 1x64MB and 1x32MB sticks in it. When I boot the machine and it does a > memory check it reports 229376 kB OK, but: > > # cat /proc/meminfo > tot

Re: [Slightly OT] Memory reporting

> Hi, > > It says I only have (just less than) 64 Meg! Any ideas why? > the kernel is not able to get a reliable report from your BIOS as to how much ram the system has so it plays it safe and sticks to 64MB. you can override this in lilo.conf: append="mem=XXXM" where XXX = amount of ram you

[Slightly OT] Memory reporting

Hi, I have a machine that I'm playing with the memory in. It has 1x128MB, 1x64MB and 1x32MB sticks in it. When I boot the machine and it does a memory check it reports 229376 kB OK, but: # cat /proc/meminfo total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 63905792 60915712 299