[ILUG] memory issues

[Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin)]

Nah - that sounds like an easy one ... 

It's a kernel that takes about 600 - 700k (one missing meg - almost), and
then you've probably got an initrd or some such sucking up a bit more of the
RAM, so now you only end up with ~2MB ...

try a -noinitrd and see what you get, try turning off lilo's initrd feature
...

Proinnsias

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	William Murphy [SMTP:alias at student.nuigalway.ie]
> Sent:	Friday, March 31, 2000 14:35
> To:	Paul Askins
> Cc:	ilug at linux.ie
> Subject:	Re: [ILUG] memory issues
> 
> Paul Askins wrote:
> 
> > Sounds like dodgy RAM or another hardware problem to me.
> 
> Nope, the amount of ram reported by free is consistent whenever I use the
> same
> kernel parameters/configuration. Also, dos consistently reports that I
> have 4
> megs.
> 
> >
> >
> > On 31-Mar-00 William Murphy wrote:
> >  Hi,
> >
> >  A bit of a strangity here. I've got a laptop here (AST 4/25SL blah blah
> >  blah). It's got 4 megs of ram. When I booted linux with the kernel that
> >  came with the distribution (some corruption of slackware) it reported
> >  that I had 2100K (or so) ram. I then rebooted, with the kernel
> parameter
> >  MEM=4M, and free reported that I had about 1900K (weird). Then I made a
> >  kernel specifically for the machine (2.0.35, as was the previous one).
> >  Now it's saying that I've got 2732K. I can imagine that this would be
> >  quite a difficult one to call, but any suggestions?
> >
> >  Cyas,
> >  William Murphy
> >  alias at student.nuigalway.ie
> 
> 
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