missing 64 MB RAM
Rich Braun
richb at pioneer.ci.net
Tue Nov 11 23:56:22 EST 1997
> I have a Dell OptiPlex GXpro (200 MHz Pentium Pro) with 128 MB of
> memory. Just installed Redhat 4.2, and it reports that the machine only
> has 64 MB. What can I do to get the remaining memory to appear?
There's a setting you need to put into lilo.conf. Add the following
line somewhere at the top of the file before the first image:
append="mem=128M"
If you don't tell it how much RAM you've installed, it has to read the BIOS,
and the BIOS only has enough bits in this field to report the first 64M.
-rich
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