[PLUG] Re: RAM Upgrade problems

[Kevin Falcone <kevinfal@seas.upenn.edu>]

>>>>> "GL" == Greg Lopp <lopp@earthlink.net> writes:

  GL> I did a search on memory upgrading and everyone seems to agree
  GL> that a modern LILO and kernel should auto-detect.  What am I
  GL> missing here?  (other than the extra 128M)

But, some recent BIOSes are broken, so linux can't auto detect (it
currently auto-detects the 162M in my machine)

try adding the following to your lilo.conf

append="mem=128M"

this allows you to tell the kernel how much ram you have.  The hihgmem
options shouldn't kick in until 1gig of RAM.

-kevin

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