[Linux-India] Re: NO SWAP! NO RAM!

[Abheek Anand <csu97111@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
1. About the RAM not being detected .. u probably havent configured the
BIOS properly. There is an option there about detecting a 'Memory Hole'
after 14M or something like that. Change the setting so that it doesnt try
and auti-rectify that. That should work..
2. If fstab doesnt have the entry for the swap.. add it  and then do
swapon -a.
3. RTFM. /usr/doc has everything.


Abheek
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On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Sachin wrote:

> Hi,
> I had recently installed RHL6.0 (chip CD). I had made the partition 1GB
> linux native and 40MB linux swap. I have 128 MB of RAM.
> 
> 1) Running free showed only 14MB of RAM!.
> I found in docs that inorder to use more than 64MB for RAM one has
> to  append lilo.conf with mem="128MB". But as I boot through floppy I
> didnt find the lilo.conf file. What should I do?
> 
> 2) Running free I found that there was no swap space!.
>           total  used  free
> swap  0      0        0
> 
> There was no use trying "swapon -av" as the etc/fstab file contained
> no swap partition. (I had earlier made 40MB swap partition).
> Why is it so?
> 
> 3) Where are the docs about installation/swap partitioning kept?
> 
> - Sachin
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