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Title: fixing the 64mb am limit
Post by: Henry on October 13, 2000, 03:59:03 AM

I spent 20 mins playing with the search function, but no luck. I'm building a new server and want to use more than
64mb ram (128mb). I seem to rmemeber a post about linux needing a config change to utilize more than 64mb, but I can't find the post. Any help?

The other thing is that I want to use an AMD K6-2 500 processor. Any compatability problems with that unit?

Thanks...........

Henry

Title: RE: fixing the 64mb am limit
Post by: Jason on October 13, 2000, 04:11:49 AM

I have 256Mb of ram and it appears to use it all .....
Or am I seeing things....

Title: RE: fixing the 64mb am limit
Post by: Damien Curtain on October 13, 2000, 04:19:19 AM

not often required but youd add a line

append="mem=128M"

to /etc/lilo.conf then run the command /sbin/lilo

--
 Damien

Title: RE: fixing the 64mb am limit
Post by: Gordon Rowell on October 13, 2000, 07:20:44 PM

Damien Curtain wrote:

> not often required but youd add a line
>
> append="mem=128M"
>
> to /etc/lilo.conf then run the command /sbin/lilo

As Damien said - this is rarely required.

The way to check is  "cat /proc/meminfo". If MemTotal doesn't match
your installed RAM, you might need this. And before you add it, I'd
search for more information on your motherboard - there may be
BIOS/flash updates which fix the problem.

You should not use this by default, or you may find that RAM you add
at a later date won't be recognised.

Gordon