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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