Re: [Sheflug] Memory Problems

[nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk]

On  3 May, Craig Andrews wrote:
> Aaah, the old memory problems.
> 
> In /etc/lilo.conf, add
> 
> mem=160M
> 
> to the kernel options (after root=/dev/hdx et al)
> 
> save, and run lilo
> 
> reboot, and TADA, loadsa memory! (took me about 4 months to figure this when
> I got 96Mb about 18months ago :-)
> 
> Craig

Modern kernels (later versions of 2.2 and above) should also recognise
the extra memory automagically. I stopped using the mem=xxx after about
2.2.5.

Pieter

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