did the append line work for you after you joined the two together with a comma?
I can't check right now, but have a read of
man lilo.conf
There's bound to be an example somewhere....
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
"Brent Timmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 14/02/2000 22:22:49
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If I don't have it, my cdwriter won't work.
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> I believe it should be
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> mem=256M
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> Either way, try something like
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> append="hdd=ide-scsi,mem=256M"
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> and rerun /sbin/lilo
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> Do you definately need the "hdd=ide-scsi" comment?
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> Steve Flynn
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> "Brent Timmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 13/02/2000 17:16:30
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> I have 256mb of ram, but linux only shows 64. I got a not from someone
> telling me to add the line:
> apppend="mem=256"
> to my lilo.conf file. The probelm is, there is already one there for
> something else. How do I combine the two(lilo won't run until there's
only
> one)?
> The I tried to put:
> append="hdd=ide-scsi mem=256"
> I saw the hdd-ide-scsi come up when booting, but a few lines after that my
> computer froze with the message:
> kernal panic: kmem_cache_sizes_init: Error creating caches
> In Swappertask = not syncing
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> Good thing I had a boot disk...
> Anyone have any ideas?
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