Wayne wrote:
> Michael,
> Yes, the quotation marks are around the 128M and i can't think for the life of
> me why it doesn't boot with the lilo.conf file.
> If i do it manually, it will boot, if it try to boot automatically from
> lilo.conf it will not work with my 128M.
> It did this previously with 128M but for some reason with this install will not.
> I am really confused at this point why this happens.
> Cheers
> Wayne
>
> On Sun, 20 Apr 2036, you wrote:
> > Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > When I start Linux with linux mem=128M it boots and reports 128M of ram.
> > When
> > > I boot from the lilo.conf file (which has the mem=128M in the append
> > section),
> > > it only boots with 65M. Any reasons why this would be so, and is there a
> > way
> > > aroudn this/
> > >
> > > Wayne
> > >
> > > PS: it worked first time last time!
> > ===================================================
> > Did you remember to use the quotation marks around "mem=128M"?
> > append="mem=128M"
> > Mike
> >
> > "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol
> > than alcohol has taken out of me."
> > --Winston Churchill
> >
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> Wayne Petherick
> Criminology Department
> Humanities and Social Sciences
> Bond University
> Gold Coast, Australia
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Do you have any other items that you're "append"ing? Seems to me I recall you needed
to keep
the appends on the same line ie append="mem=128M","something_else","more_stuff"
although I
don't recall the exact format. You can check the archives though as it was discussed
SEVERAL
weeks back.
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