On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Rial Juan wrote:
>
> Don't know if it works, but have you tried appending 255M instead of 256? I
> remember to have read something about this on the utah-glx list, and it seemed
> to help...
>
> On Mar 10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > As per the subject I have a Panrix machine with an AMD Athalon
> > processor, it has 256mb RAM (and this is checked and counted OK by the
> > bios at boot time). The kernel (2.2.14 - standard from Mandrake 7.0) is
> > only finding 64mb).
> >
> > The installer showed 65mb, I tried entering 256 but it was ignored so
> > far as I can see.
> >
> > I have tried adding append "mem=256" to my lilo.conf, but this causes
> > the kernel to hang on bootup.
your missing the M on the end, it's only seeing 256kb not enough..
> > I have made sure the bios is not shadowing any areas of RAM.
> >
> > Anyone got any bright ideas about how to rescue my RAM? I am happy to
> > use a custom kernel but so far I have not found an option that makes any
> > difference.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Dave
> >
>
>
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