[newbie] Mandrake failing to recognize all my RAM

[Bob McCouch]

Hi all,
    New to the list. Saw an archive about the same problem I'm having.
I have 256MB of RAM and mdk insists that I only have 65. I tried the
append="mem=256M" addition to lilo.conf with no results. Anyone else
have any other insight on the problem? So far I'm loving Mandrake and
Linux, but it'd be really nice if it recognized more than 1/4 of my
memory...

Thanks,

Bob