Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-16 Thread Floods
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 09:33:11PM +0200, Floods wrote: > > append="mem=192m" > > Grub has own memory detection metod Then it doesn't work...My system sees only 64M if I don't specify 'mem=192m' > but lilo doesn't has any. > Your append-mem e

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-14 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 09:33:11PM +0200, Floods wrote: > I have an Athlon-based system too and grub sees all my 192M. > This is my linux section in menu.lst file: > > title linux > kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 vga=2 mem=192m > initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-13 Thread Floods
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:56:52PM -0600, Art Edwards wrote: > I just purchased two Athalon-based systems, each with 768M of ram. > However, under debian (potato runnin kernel 2.2.17) the OS sees only 65 > M of memory. I have tried to use the append command > > mem=768M > > but it still

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Julio Merino wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:44:41PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > Debian install docs do say something about disabling all > > "memory holes" in the bios. -chris > > I have these options disabled... but why are they useful? > > Thanks > > No i

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-12 Thread Julio Merino
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:44:41PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Debian install docs do say something about disabling all > "memory holes" in the bios. -chris I have these options disabled... but why are they useful? Thanks > > On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Julio Merino wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-12 Thread Jason Quigley
Lucky I didn't shut my server down then ;-) --On Monday, September 11, 2000 22:19 +0200 Julio Merino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 07:09:08PM +0200, Jason Quigley wrote: Does your bios have the setting memory hole at 64M activated? I'm not sure if that's the exact opti

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
Debian install docs do say something about disabling all "memory holes" in the bios. -chris On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Julio Merino wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 07:09:08PM +0200, Jason Quigley wrote: > > > Does your bios have the setting memory hole at 64M activated? I'm not sure > > if > > tha

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-11 Thread Julio Merino
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 07:09:08PM +0200, Jason Quigley wrote: > Does your bios have the setting memory hole at 64M activated? I'm not sure > if > that's the exact option. I only vaguely remember something like that as I > haven't rebooted for such a long time - and sorry - I refuse to for >

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-11 Thread Jason Quigley
Does your bios have the setting memory hole at 64M activated? I'm not sure if that's the exact option. I only vaguely remember something like that as I haven't rebooted for such a long time - and sorry - I refuse to for this! ;-) Cheers, Jason. --On Monday, September 11, 2000 9:20 -0700 Eri

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-11 Thread Erik
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:56:52PM -0600, Art Edwards wrote: > I just purchased two Athalon-based systems, each with 768M of ram. > However, under debian (potato runnin kernel 2.2.17) the OS sees only 65 > M of memory. I have tried to use the append command > > mem=768M > > but it still sees only

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-10 Thread Art Edwards
Thanks for all of the responses. It turns out that I had forgotten to invoke /sbin/lilo after altering my lilo.conf file. the utility free sees all of my memory now. Sheepishly yours, -- Arthur H. Edwards 712 Valencia Dr. NE Abq. NM 87108 (505) 256-0834

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-10 Thread Jaume Teixi
just type exactly append mem=768M on a line in lilo.conf then on / run lilo reboot, what free command shows to you? > > > mem=768M > > > > but it still sees only 65 M? > > > > Does anyone have any ideas? > > Where are you applying the append command -- at the LILO boot prompt or > in /etc/lilo

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-10 Thread kmself
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:56:52PM -0600, Art Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just purchased two Athalon-based systems, each with 768M of ram. > However, under debian (potato runnin kernel 2.2.17) the OS sees only 65 > M of memory. I have tried to use the append command > > mem=768M > > bu