----- Original Message -----
From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] 64 MB limit?
> On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 1:03 PM
> > Subject: Re: [expert] 64 MB limit?
> >
> >
> > > >
> > > In /etc/lilo.conf add the following line:
> > > append=mem=256mb
> > > re-run /sbin/lilo, reboot and it should see all the memory.
> > > Have you turned off the "memory hole at X ram"??? That
> > > might also cause the problem.
> >
> >
> > Shouldn't that be
> >
> > append="mem=256M"
> >
> Give the man a cigar! ;-) I haven't had to use that so I
> was going strictly from memory... I missed the quotation
> marks. :-)
And I have found it better to test out by entering
linux mem=256M
at the LILO prompt after hitting the TAB key, just in case something is not
quite right.
Putting a wrong value in /etc/lilo.conf for this will hang the computer at
boot
and cause one to need those little-used rescue skills. (I know from
experience.)
BTW, there is an indication that Mandrake might shift to GRUB as a
bootlader.
GNU/GRUB is not subject to the 1024 cylinder limit of lilo.
Don't know what it does about passing kernel stuff like mem=, though.
Hoyt
