Re: limit memory

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On Monday 12 July 2004 14:02, Cristina Rivera wrote:
> Someone has told me that is possible to limit the RAM memory that
> linux can use. It can be made by putting some key words in LILO or
> GRUB.  I need to know how to do it in GRUB because I boot my machine
> with it, so, if someone has done it, please tell me what I have to
> add to the file grub.conf so that I can limit my RAM memory available
> in Linux.

For grub, you need to add the mem= option to your 'kernel' line.
For lilo, add the mem= option to the 'append' line.

See Documentation/memory.txt


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