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Re: Linux won't work with RAM > 64 MB



Werner: I do not know why your system would not boot correctly with
> 64Mb RAM. Linux 2.0 will not recognise more than 64Mb RAM automatically,
but it will still boot (but ignore the extra memory). I have 128Mb RAM
in my system here and Linux 2.0 works fine.

On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 12:12:34PM -0700, Mark Yobb wrote:
> You can get Debian to use your 128M of memory by passing a command to
> the kernel with your boot loader.  I use lilo and this is what I put in
> my /etc/lilo.conf file
> 
> append="mem=80M"    

Mark: this tells Linux about the extra memory, but it will still work
without it.


Hamish
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