missing 64 MB RAM

Rich Braun richb at pioneer.ci.net
Tue Nov 11 23:56:22 EST 1997


> I have a Dell OptiPlex GXpro (200 MHz Pentium Pro) with 128 MB of
> memory.  Just installed Redhat 4.2, and it reports that the machine only
> has 64 MB.  What can I do to get the remaining memory to appear?

There's a setting you need to put into lilo.conf.  Add the following
line somewhere at the top of the file before the first image:

  append="mem=128M"

If you don't tell it how much RAM you've installed, it has to read the BIOS,
and the BIOS only has enough bits in this field to report the first 64M.

-rich



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