I had the same problem.
In my BIOS there was a setting that had something to do with "reserving
memory for legacy ISA cards." I simply disabled it and let Linux have that
memory.
When you boot into Linux, you should now have all 256MB available.
Keep us posted,
Matt
>From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [newbie] ram not seen
>Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 01:53:35 -0800
>
>can anyone help?
>I have installed mandrake 6.1 on an athlon system and it all
>went well except i have 256 megs of ram but linux seems to recognize
>only
>16 megs of it.
>Thanks for any help Paul
>
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