I have a problem with the grub configuration on my machine. I have RedHat 7.2 installed on a Dell Precision 410 machine. I am trying to set the amount of memory in the boot command. All of the stuff that I have seen says to put mem=256M at the end of the boot command. This will not work on this particular machine. I tried to do this on another machine and the machine boots fine. One difference between the two machines is the one that works has IDE drives and the one that doesn't work has SCSI drives.
version: grub-0.90-11 which was installed with the RedHat 7.2 installation. This is my grub.conf file: default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-10smp) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10smp ro root=/dev/sda1 mem=254M initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.7-10smp.img title Red Hat Linux-up (2.4.7-10) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/sda1 initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.7-10.img This is the error I get when I try to boot the system with the smp configuration: request_module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or 8:01 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01 disk partition map: Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2213 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 637 5116671 83 Linux /dev/sda2 638 1019 3068415 83 Linux /dev/sda3 1020 1149 1044225 82 Linux swap /dev/sda4 1150 2213 8546580 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 1150 2213 8546548+ 83 Linux Without the mem=254M, the system boots fine with the smp configuration. I am trying to use a motion video card in my machine that requires some memory for the card. Therefore, I have to specify a mem that is 2M less what the system has in order to save that 2M for the motion video card. Thank you, Janet Anstett _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub