Re: Not recognizing all physical memory

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:43:43 +0000 (GMT)


> On some systems, with 80meg ram, only 16 is recognized. There are no

You mean compaqs ?

> SCSI controllers or other hardware limitations that could be
> responsible.
>
> Is there a way to manually define how much memory the kernel should
> address? This is with kernel version 2.0.30. Thanks, CW

mem=80M on the kernel boot line or add

append="mem=80M"

to /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo

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