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AW: 80 MB ram in debian system



> Russ Cook asked:
> This weekend, I added some ram to my system.  I now have two 32 MB
> simms,
> and two 8 MB simms, giving me a total of 80 MB of ram.  My bios
> recognizes
> all ram at bootup, but Linux only recognizes 64 MB.  I think this has
> been
> addressed here before, something about a line added to lilo.conf.
> But, I
> don't remember the solution.  Could someone repeat it for me?
> 
See the BootPrompt-HOWTO in /usr/doc/HOWTO (if you've installed 
the doc-linux package) aswell as the lilo.conf(5) manpage.

You want to add a line like 
	append "mem=80M"
to the section definig your kernel boot image.

HTH,
Thomas 


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