Adding memory

[Mazarin]

I added an extra 128 megs of ram into my previously only 64 meg system.

Then i put append="mem=192M" into the /lilo.conf file and ran lilo. now I get a kernel panic on boot up. So I can only use 128 megs of ram.

Anybody got an idea how to fix this?

[Letalis]

Im not sure but I think you cannot mix 128Mb and 64 Mb memory.

[mjb0314]

Originally posted by Letalis:
Im not sure but I think you cannot mix 128Mb and 64 Mb memory.

Just a correction to the above post.
Yes you can mix different sizes of ram, my computer has one 128 Mb, one 64 Mb, and one 32 Mb.

[Mazarin]

Well i'm still running on that 128. Nobody has ever had a kernel panic on bootup after changing the size?

[Strike]

Check your BIOS settings for weird memory related things. Also, search the forums here for this topic, it has been answered many times before.

[inkedmn]

you may have a problem if the different RAM sticks are for different bus speeds (PC100, PC133, etc) and you've got them running on the same board, that can cause problems as well.

just a thought

brett

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[Shad]

Try from lilo
linux mem=192
Possible you have gotten syntax for append wrong. Also what does your bios detects when it runs its memory check?

[Mazarin]

BIOS picks up 196608KB of ram

which is really strange

[Shad]

1024kb=1mb
Your memory check looks right, did you try my suggestion of "doing the mem= at the lilo prompt"? The other one is try only 190 or so.

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[winnotgoneyet]

I don't think this is your problem but, just a suggestion, any reading I've done it is important what order you add the memory, I noticed on some motherboards, you have to have the 64M in the first slot and the 32M in the next slot, etc
I don't know if this applies to all boards but certainly the ones I've played with!