[ILUG] Memory Detection Problem

[Stephen Shirley]

Problem solved - I'm now booting from Lilo - 
and all the memory is being detected.
I have no idea why the loadlin way wasn't
working, but I'm happy now.

As for the mem= option - it's probably not
working for the same reason that the memory
wasn't working in the first place.

Thanks for all the suggestions people,
Steve



On Mon, 15 May 2000, Wesley Darlington wrote:

> > root partition being on scsi disk and win2k boot loader. I've
> > been typing 
> > 	"loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 mem=128M 1"
> > Everything else on the line is working, and the '1', which
> > is after it is putting it into single user mode.
> > I think I heard though that the mem= option was no longer
> > there in the 2.2.X kernels because linux should now
> > automatically detect correctly the amount of memory.
> 
> Would be very surprised if the call had been removed. It's deffo
> there in 2.2.14. I was doing some testing with different memory
> sizes on a 2.2.14 box using the mem= option. Maybe it's gone from
> 2.2.15? Scary thought.
> 
> All the best,
> Wesley.
> 
>