From: Boyle, Martin (martin.boyle at domain sap-ag.de)
Date: Sun 08 Aug 1999 - 11:33:08 IST
> I asked a question a few days ago about a problem where my machine
> reports 128m, but Linux (SuSE 6.1) only recognises 64m. Quite a lot
> of people mailed me back suggesting adding mem=128 or mem=120 to
> the boot parameters.
> When I try anything like this my machine boots for a bit, but hangs just
> after Linux tells me how many bogomips my machine does. If I stick
> memory=128 or memory=128m or memory=120, or even memory=48 the
> machine boots just fine but still reports 64m. Any other switches anyone
> could suggest ?
Erm.
I thought the 2.2 kernel meant you didn't have to do this any more.
Which 2.2 kernel version does SUSE 6.1 have?
Have you recompiled it? (don't worry, no-one will bite it you haven't).
What does your lilo.conf file look like now?
& as Rob said, try:
append="mem=128M"
append="mem=127M"
Martin.
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