There is an option that needs to be fed to Lilo that shows the amount of RAM 
that a system has

something like
append=Mem=1536M

> I added some memory to a Dell server running debian and the bios reported
> that it detected more memory during the next bootup but when I did a free
> It does not seem to report more memory, there is a more that normal that
> is free but not 512 mb free.
> 
> I went from 1 gig to 1.5 gigs of memory, not sure if Debian sees it this way.
> 
> 
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        903688     817132      86556          0     134824     322400
> -/+ buffers/cache:     359908     543780
> Swap:      2032212          0    2032212
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