adding more ram?

[forrest]

i know i set the amount of ram on install, and i'm going to add more ram soon (a lot of it actually, from 64, to 320 megs of pc133). now, my question is, do i need to change anything to get linux to USE the full 320 megs of my ram?

and if so, what config file/s do i edit?

[Sokertes]

What distro are you using?

[Strike]

Probably not. You may have to add an append="mem=320M" line to /etc/lilo.conf if it doesn't see it all, but all in all it should find your RAM at boot by probing it.

[This message has been edited by Strike (edited 18 November 2000).]

[Paul Weaver]

It will depend on your motherboards age too. My Abit be6-2 didnt have it auto-probe above 64MB, but I upgraded to the latest bios and it works fine.

[forrest]

i've got an Abit KA7 w/ the bios latest as of 3 months ago, and i'm running storm.

should that config autoprobe it?

[Paul Weaver]

Should do, but try it, dont put an append line, boot up, log in, type free

append will always work, sometimes theres no need though.

[Geese]

You need to edit your lilo.conf to say:

image = /vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda7
label = 1
append = "mem=320M"

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