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Re: Making Debian Recognize 256 Meg of Ram



> Would somebody be kind enough to tell me how to make my machine recognize
> 256Meg of RAM.

The kernel will only autoprobe 64M (on i386 machines) to avoid some nasty
bios bugs, IIRC.  You need to pass "mem=256M" to the kernel at boot.  If
you're using lilo,  this can be done with

append="mem=256M"

in lilo.conf. 
                     					Will

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