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I remember this one from a while back. I seem to remember that Lilo has
a problem with large memory. Try using grub, you can easily switch back
if it doesnt do the trick for you (although I don't know why you
would). I have alot of systems running FC2 using grub with 1GB ram, no
problem<br>
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Frank Kumro wrote:
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<pre wrap="">The machine is a custom built one. The specs are below
- AMD XP 3200
- 1gb PC3200 ram
- ASUS A7N8X-E Delux Motherboard (NForce 2 chipset)
- other misc computer stuff
This is what I placed in my lilo.conf and still /proc/meminfo doesnt
show the correct information.
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1
initrd = /boot/initrd.gz
root = /dev/hda6
label = Linux(2.6.8)New
append = "mem=1024M"
read-only
MemTotal: 904568 kB
MemFree: 505068 kB
Buffers: 50976 kB
Cached: 266040 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 258864 kB
Inactive: 108980 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 904568 kB
LowFree: 505068 kB
SwapTotal: 1044184 kB
SwapFree: 1044184 kB
Dirty: 40560 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
Mapped: 75108 kB
Slab: 20224 kB
Committed_AS: 64732 kB
PageTables: 696 kB
VmallocTotal: 122804 kB
VmallocUsed: 23868 kB
VmallocChunk: 94404 kB
GKrellm also reports 883 mb of ram total. Maybe there are some inaccuracies?
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 08:57:09 -0700 (PDT), Dave Andruczyk
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:djandruczyk@yahoo.com"><djandruczyk@yahoo.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">What kind of computer? Dell's have an option in the BIOS called "OS install
mode" that limits the max amount of ram seen by the OS as 256 megs. If that's
the case disable it. the other option is to add the "mem=1024M" to your
bootloader. (if using lilo put it on the "append" line) if using grub put it on
the line for your kernel definition.
remember if you use LILO as your loader you have to rerun lilo if you modify
the conf file, it's NOT required if you use GRUB...
--- Frank Kumro <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:fkumro@gmail.com"><fkumro@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I have 1gb of ram on my machine and when I cat /proc/meminfo I recieve
this information
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 262115328 254373888 7741440 0 38125568 158715904
Swap: 534634496 107360256 427274240
MemTotal: 255972 kB
MemFree: 7560 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 37232 kB
Cached: 119208 kB
SwapCached: 35788 kB
Active: 122148 kB
Inactive: 111824 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 255972 kB
LowFree: 7560 kB
SwapTotal: 522104 kB
SwapFree: 417260 kB
Shouldnt MemTotal be around 1033936 kB? Do I need to use some kind of
High Memory support in the kernel? FYI windoze does see 1gb of ram and
memtest86+ doesnt report any errors with the ram and sees 1gb. Its
been a rough day with linux and I :(
--
Frank
Shenanigans!!
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Dave J. Andruczyk
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