That's it - the graphics board uses 8MB. Thanks for this; glad I
don't need to play with Lilo any more!
TVM
Glyn M.
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 03:32:29PM +0200, thus spake Wolfgang Bornath:
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 09:48 +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
> > This is an old question but for me its a new machine.
> >
> > It's an AMd K6 450 with 32 mb RAM (soon to be increased!)
> >
> > On firing up Mandrake 7 (with kernel 2.2.15-0.18mdk), it tells me
> > I have 23MB ram. I've added
> > append = "mem=32m"
> > to lilo.conf with no effect.
>
> Try Dan's advice (mem=32M, run /sbin/lilo after change). If that
> is not the solution then look at your graphics board. Does it
> have all it's memory on the board or does it use a part of RAM?
> Some graphics boards use 8 or 16M of the system's memory so you
> have to substract that amount from RAM.
>
> wobo
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