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can't see 512 megs of ram

Derek

can't see 512 megs of ram
« on: May 01, 2003, 07:03:14 AM »
does anyone know why a AMD 1.2 with 512 ram running v5.5 seems to be only seeing 32 megs of ram on the machine and if so how do you fix it?

Mem:    32292K av,   31624K used,     668K free,       0K shrd,     652K buff

I think this is greatly slowing the machine

Thanks

Cyrus Bharda

Re: can't see 512 megs of ram
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2003, 09:45:32 AM »
Derek

When you boot, does the POST clock up 512 MB?

Just thinking it might be a hardware fault, if not then I have no idea :-)

Cyrus Bharda

boris

Re: can't see 512 megs of ram
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2003, 11:06:06 AM »
You can add correct amount of RAM in the LILO
/etc/lilo.conf and then run lilo -v

Derek

Re: can't see 512 megs of ram
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2003, 05:30:15 PM »
Thank  you

What command would I put in there and where exactly do I do that

Thanks

Chaloner Hale

Re: can't see 512 megs of ram
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2003, 07:04:55 PM »
This;

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19-7.0.8smp
label=esmith
read-only
root=/dev/ida/c0d0p6


initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.19-7.0.8smp.img


image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19-7.0.8
label=esmith-up
read-only
root=/dev/ida/c0d0p6


initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.19-7.0.8.img

Should look like;

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19-7.0.8smp
label=esmith
append="mem=512M"
read-only
root=/dev/ida/c0d0p6


initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.19-7.0.8smp.img


image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19-7.0.8
label=esmith-up
append="mem=512M"
read-only
root=/dev/ida/c0d0p6


initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.19-7.0.8.img

Chaloner Hale

Derek

Re: can't see 512 megs of ram
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2003, 03:54:49 AM »
works now
thanks guys