Chris wrote:
>
> At 02:52 PM 7/28/00 +0200, you wrote:
> >Patti Wavinak wrote:
> >
> > > I have installed Mandrake 7.1 on a Pentium II 450Mhz with 256 MB of RAM.
> > > It is only showing 65 MB of ram being detected, even though I entered 256
> > > during install. In looking over the archives I notice there was
> > > discussion and how to fix this in the /etc/lilo.conf BUT I am using Grub.
> > > I am hoping that someone out there can help me with this problem.
> > >
> > > I am a real newbie -- my first install of Linux was 2 weeks ago on July
> > > 8th and I love it!!!
> > >
> > > Patti Wavinak
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >Hello.
> >I have just upgraded my system, to a dual-celleron on an Abit BP6, and have
> >got the same problem. My prior system was an AMD K6-3, and it had no
> >difficulties detecting the 256 Mb. I have tried to flash my BIOS - and wow -
> >now I have my 256 Mb back again, at least I thought, because now it will not
> >boot to windoze, so back again (my daughter can't accept beeing unable to
> >play on the computer).
> >I have tried to use the append="MEM=256", but it corrupts my system.
> >So in my case there is a clear link between 'missing' RAM and BIOS.
>
> Brings me to a question.. upgrading a machine from 64MB to 512MB after an
> install should be nothing doing, correct? :)
>
> CW
Patti and Chris,
Log in as 'root', and open up /etc/lilo.conf
You should see a line append=" Failsafe "
Instead of adding another append line, change the existing append line
to:
append =" Failsafe mem=256M"
This should stop the crash.
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Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
