In tis case, LILO wanted more memory and not time
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, bosco mewed:
> Hey,
>
> Here's an interesting one for you.. I needed to try that mem=xxxx b/c I
> was running with only 65 when really i have 192.. So here's the deal..
> I run Linux on my second hard drive and consequently have LILO on that
> drive..
>
> Well I use Bootmagic to choose between Linux and Windows.. When I boot
> to Linux it then boots LILO and goes straight to kernel loading.. I had
> once before been able to add the command to make it wait but was unable
> to recently..
>
> I read in the Lilo manual it was delay=xxxx... then I saw in someone
> else's lilo.conf they had timeout=xxx... either way neither one of them
> worked.. But, I added mem=192M to the append line ( after I had tested
> it of course ) and that gets recognized?!?! Any ideas? Is LILO being
> selective in what it accepts from me.. LOL..
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> thanks,
>
> bosco().
>
>
> ( at any rate all is well and working like I wanted, but I was
> nonetlheless still curious.. )
