[plug] Adding memory to Linux systems

Greg Anderson greg at nvt.com.au
Tue Jul 24 16:50:24 WST 2001


Try changing the order in which the memory chips are put in...

that might help

Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Steege [mailto:psteege at tpg.com.au]
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 4:44 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Adding memory to Linux systems


That's what I was afraid you would say.
I added a PC133 256Mb stick to my system and it started acting crazy.
It crashed and I could not get fsck to clean up the disk.
I removed the new memory stick and after a lengthy fsck it all came back.
I am sending this email from the RH7.1 system now.

I guess I will be re-visiting the shop where I bought the memory.

Thanks
Phil

On Tuesday 24 July 2001 06:38 pm, Simon Scott wrote:
> nope.... possibly youll have to put an append statement in your lilo
> (I cant remember the exact statement offhand, anyone?) in case Linux
> falsely detects the amount of ram (broken BIOSes?), and you might wanna
> rethink your swap disk size, but there is nothing really special about
> adding ram to a linux box.






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