ram and rh7

[messy]

hello,

i am running a crappy MB amd 400 K62 128Mb

when i boot up i log in and do "top" only picking up 64megs?

went to RH website found the problem:

"In the following example, we have a 128M machine but only 64M are being seen by Linux. At the LILO prompt, we type


LILO: linux mem=128M"

this doesn't work, is there any other commands you can add to LILO to fix this?

thx

[eXtremist]

Edit the /etc/lilo.conf file, and under the linux section add the line

append="mem=128M"

[messy]

by doing that, is there a way this could keep me from not booting up?

[demian]

Originally posted by messy:
<STRONG>by doing that, is there a way this could keep me from not booting up?</STRONG>

Unlikely... However, be sure to run the command /sbin/lilo right after you edited (and saved) the /etc/lilo.conf file to reinstall lilo with the new settings.
Be aware that this is actually the same as typing linux mem=128M at the boot prompt. You must have mistyped something when you tried that in the first place.

[messy]

i tried it multiple times before posting, a friend told me another command and i don't remember it :(. if editing the /sbin/lilo and adding append=mem128M is the same as typing it in lilo, i will be screwed. the error i am getting is "In swapper task - not syncing"

[messy]

after hours of searching i got it to work with "mem=126M" instead of the 128M.

thx for the help.