Re: [LILO]

[Nathan E Norman <finn@midco.net>]

On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:

The one thing you don't mention is if you actually reran 'lilo'.
Editing lilo.conf is not good enough; you must rerun lilo.

Assuming that you did that, the location of the append line in your
config file may be problematic.  I don't claim to be a lilo expert, but
I have noticed that global defines such as "append" are better placed
near the beginning of the file than near the end.  Try moving your
"append" line to right after the "delay" line (and rerun lilo before you
reboot).

Here's my lilo.conf ...

kepler:~ $ cat /etc/lilo.conf 
boot=/dev/sda1
compact
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=20
append="mem=96M ether=10,0x300,eth0 ether=11,0x2e0,eth1"
# images
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.32
  root=/dev/sda1
  label=Linux
  read-only

HTH,


: I upgraded from 64M to 96M of RAM.
: 
: beetle % cat /etc/lilo.conf
: boot=/dev/sdb3
: root=/dev/sdb3
: # Generated by liloconfig
: compact
: install=/boot/boot.b
: map=/boot/map
: vga=normal
: delay=20
: image=/vmlinuz
: label=Linux
: append = "mem=96M"
: read-only
: 
: beetle # dmesg | grep Memory
: Memory: 63084k/65536k available (836k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1232k
: data)
: 
: beetle % cat /proc/meminfo
:         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
: Mem:  64598016 59875328  4722688 92307456  2199552 28725248
: Swap: 65798144        0 65798144
: MemTotal:     63084 kB
: MemFree:       4612 kB
: MemShared:    90144 kB
: Buffers:       2148 kB
: Cached:       28052 kB
: SwapTotal:    64256 kB
: SwapFree:     64256 kB
: 
: 
: What gives?  I *did* reboot.  I did run the BIOS config utility.  During
: bootup I can see 96M.  FWIW, I use System Commander.  Get into LILO from
: there and bootup.
: 
: I am guessing that LILO is not passing the append string to the kernel. 
: Would appreciate help.
: 
: Thaths
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