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Ivan Smith wrote:
> 
> I have two problems with my RedHat 5.0 (2.0.31) kernel:
> 
> 1) Linux isn't seeing all 128Mb or my RAM - it's only seeing the first 64Mb
> of it.
> 
> 2) I updated to the 2.0.32 kernel last night and whilst it runs the machine
> just fine etc.. the sound isn't working. there is an error when the kernel
> boots saying that it can't find the sound modules.
> 
> Can some one shed any light on these problems??? The sound thing is a module
> loading problem I think but I don't know how to add the pointers to the
> modules so the kernel can find them at boot time (maybe I did something
> wrong?).
> 
> The memory problem has me completely stumped because my WinNT.0 installation
> (yes! I know ;( sees all 128Mb as it should. - can some one help me with
> this one? It's more  important that the kernel sees all 128Mb at this time
> than having blaring .mod/mpega/cdda audio.
> 
> thanks in advance.
> 
> Ivan.

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Hello Ivan,

Re 1.:
To get linux to recognize more than 64M of memory, you need to pass a
parameter to the kernel at load time specifying the amount of physical
memory in the machine. From page 38 of the RH5.0 manual ;), the
parameter is: mem=128M. You should be able to set this up to occur on
every boot by modifying /etc/lilo.conf.

From memory, this is as simple as adding append="mem=128M" to the
appropriate boot image option in /etc/lilo.conf and running /sbin/lilo.
However, check the documentation on lilo (man lilo, man lilo.conf) to
confirm this.


Good luck,

Neil.
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