making Mandrake recognise 128 MB RAM

[Priemsy]

I'm sorry about this as I know it must be in a FAQ somewhere but I cant find it. How do you make Mandrake 7.2 recognise 128 MB RAM?

Also does anyone know how to change the default icons for folders?

Thanks for any help

[Craig McPherson]

If I recall correctly, you need to pass the mem=128 argument to the kernel. (I think it's mem=128... it could be ram=128; I think it's the former but I don't remember)

There are several ways to pass arguments to the kernel. The quickest, just to test it out, is through your bootloader: if you normally type "linux" at your bootloader to get into Linux, type "linux mem=128". Other bootloaders have similar ways to pass arguments to the kernel.

Once you've tried it out, you can pass it automatically by editing the configuration file for your boot loader and having it automatically appended. If you're using LILO, you'd edit your lilo.conf and use an append line for this.

[chenliway]

yea its mem=
i just asked this on another topic =]

[Priemsy]

hmm, thats strange. I've tried every variation of mem=128 (spaces no spaces etc), both in the bootloader and in lilo.conf but it doesn't seem to be working. DrakeConf still reports me having 66 MB RAM.

Is there another way of checking how much memory linux thinks I have? ie a console program.

Thanks for your previous replies

[Craig McPherson]

I think it may be "mem=128m". But I haven't done it in a long time, so I'm just going by (pun alert) memory. Do a Google search to check. Actually, you may want to do mem=127m instead to make sure you don't accidently run off the end of your memory, which would crash the entire operating system.

[Priemsy]

Thanks for that, it worked beautifully with mem=127m.

[Unruly]

I thought it was append mem=128

oh well, shows what I know.