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Hi, folks--

I have an IBM PC 750 (Pentium 133, PCI bus), dual-booting Red Hat
Linux 5.2 and WinNT 4.0. I boot Linux, first with NTLoader, then
LILO. Most of the Linux installation is on the second IDE hard drive,
but I have a minimal boot partition on the first hard drive.

The machine has 80M of RAM. I believe 16M is original, with the
remaining 64M being 3rd-party DIMMs. Anyway, Linux only recognizes the
first 64M. The POST and Windoze recognize the entire 80M, so there's
nothing obviously wrong with the RAM itself.

$ cat /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda8
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=20
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7
        label=linux
        root=/dev/hdc1
        read-only
        append="aha152x=0x140,11,7,1,1,1 mem=80M"

I tried it without the SCSI stuff, and have also specified an exact
number of bytes in hexadecimal, but nothing seems to work.

Anyone have an idea what I can do about this?
--
Matt Gushee
Portland, Maine, USA

http://www.havenrock.com/

run the lilo command after editing lilo.conf  :)

Svend

Thanks, but I've done that many times. I wish it were something so
obvious. Anybody else?

--
Matt Gushee
Portland, Maine, USA

http://www.havenrock.com/

Try putting  mem=80M before aha152x=...
    append="mem=80M aha152x=0x140,11,7,1,1,1 "

Preet

Quote:

> nothing obviously wrong with the RAM itself.

> $ cat /etc/lilo.conf
> boot=/dev/hda8
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=20
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7
>         label=linux
>         root=/dev/hdc1
>         read-only
>         append="aha152x=0x140,11,7,1,1,1 mem=80M"

> I tried it without the SCSI stuff, and have also specified an exact
> number of bytes in hexadecimal, but nothing seems to work.

I assume that you ran lilo after making the change.
The only thing I could suggest is to try the following:
   1)  at the prompt, type in:  linux mem=80M, see if that did anything
   2)  remove the mem=80M from the append statement, and add the following
line:
         literal="mem=80M"

Try it out.  Let us know how it turns out.  Your feedback will probably
help the next person with the same problem.

Well. Turns out it was my dumb mistake all along. No, I didn't forget
to run lilo. What I forgot was that when you boot with

        NT Loader  ->  LILO  ->  Linux

you have to copy your boot sector to a file in the NT file system.

Sorry to have wasted everyone's time with my non-problem.

--
Matt Gushee
Portland, Maine, USA

http://www.havenrock.com/