Re: Memory upgrade and kernel panic

[Casey Webster <casey@trifocus.net>]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 09:26:17AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> That append line hasn't been needed since kernel 2.0.36, has it ?? I
> remember when I first started with Linux and Redhat supplied 2.0.34 or
> so (Redhat 5.0) and I needed it since I had 128mb RAM and it only saw
> 64mb. Once I upgraded to 2.0.36, I removed that append line from
> /etc/lilo.conf and it saw all of memory just fine.
> 

casey@caseybox:~$ uname -a
Linux caseybox 2.2.18pre21 #1 Sat Nov 18 18:47:15 EST 2000 i686 unknown
casey@caseybox:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         63420      62024       1396       7956      42732       7672
-/+ buffers/cache:      11620      51800
Swap:      1028140      12116    1016024

casey@caseybox:~$ uname -a
Linux caseybox 2.4.0 #1 Sun Jan 28 18:20:49 CST 2001 i686 unknown
casey@caseybox:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        513200      36468     476732          0       1564      16032
-/+ buffers/cache:      18872     494328
Swap:      1028140          0    1028140

both with no append line or saying anything special to lilo.