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Re: Memory Problem



Thomas Wild said:
> > Altho his machine has 128 megs of RAM, he can only see 64 megs.
> > 
> > The solution is to include the following command in your lilo.conf
> > and re- run "lilo":
> > 
> >   append="mem=128M"
> > (note the capital "M"!)
> 
> I did. I wrote it under Image ..... But when I reboot the maschine, it
> tells me a lot of sequentation faults.

Some BIOSes like to use the uppermost portion of RAM for their own purposes,
so when you use a mem= argument to LILO, you should specify 1 MB less than is
actually present.  Try

append="mem=127M"

instead and see if that works.

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