I tried removing the one 64mb dimm in my system and going with the original 128 mb that came in the pc and configuring the memory the way you stated and the system won't start again. The most common error I get after changing the memory setting in lilo is: Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle process IN swapper task - hot syncing That happens about 10 seconds after lilo into the boot process. The other error was similar except it stated that it could not mount root file system 30:b1 or something. The system is a Dell Dimension L500C if that helps any. Can anyone help me? Thanks, Aaron -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Gerber Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2000 8:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Memory isn't being used/found Linux will normally see 64M of ram; as yours sees only 16M I suspect that you have mismatched dimms, either brand or speed or both. Try changing the order of the dimms in the sockets maybe with the biggest capacity dimm in slot 1 and see if linux sees more. In any case to use more than 64M do the following... Either go through drakconf on the desktop and then to linuxconf or type linuxconf as superuser in a terminal, then click on boot mode, LILO defaults, extra options, and at 'boot options' put 'mem=192M' without the quotes. Click on 'accept', 'yes' to activate, and 'quit' till you get out. If there are any errors and you are asked if you want to see the log files, say no. You will have to reboot to activate the change. If your built in video card uses shared ram, you will have to reduce the 192M by the shared amount. Bill. Aaron wrote: > > Ok, I have 192 mb of memory and my Mandrake install only sees/uses 16mb. I > searched the archives and found a couple of the same emails. Can someone > explain how to fix this problem in a little more detail than the links I > have provided here? I am a Linux moron and all help is appreciated. > Thanks, > Aaron > > http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/msg08875.html > http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/msg08909.html
