On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> 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.
>
A couple things occur to me right off the bat:
do you have set on in your BIOS "memory hole at 16 MB"????
If so, try turning it off.
Second, you SHOULDN'T need to do this, but you can try
putting this at the LILO prompt:
linux append='mem=256mb' (quotes included this time.) That
should force it to see all 256 megs, however, I've read on
this list that with the later kernels, you shouldn't have
to do this...
John
