From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) Description of problem: System has 128M of memory. Memory test at bootup displays 131072k. Added to first line of lilo.conf append="mem=128M". Upon rebooting computer and typing cat /proc/meminfo, system still shows 6474572 for total mem. BIOS is Award Modular BIOS V4.51G Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Added to first line of lilo.conf append="mem=128M" 2.type /sbin/lilo -v 3.reboot computer Actual Results: After system reboots I type cat /proc/meminfo and total mem still show 6474672 Expected Results: total mem should be around 128M Additional info: BIOS is Award Modular V4.51G
This is most likely not a lilo issue but an e820 BIOS issue. Reassigning to the kernel (and to arjanv who knows more about the e820 issues than I do).
Also this may be related to the memory problem in the kernel. We have a program that is crashing and when it crashes it puts a message in the /var/log/messages file. The message is "Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0a0a0924"
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