Re: [expert] RAM above 64mb not found

2000-03-17 Thread David Warnock
Thanks everyone for the help. I was missing the M so 256M works fine and I am a happy bunny. Sorry for the delay in replying but I have been travelling (and installing more Mandrake very successfully). David

[expert] RAM above 64mb not found

2000-03-10 Thread David Warnock
Hi, As per the subject I have a Panrix machine with an AMD Athalon processor, it has 256mb RAM (and this is checked and counted OK by the bios at boot time). The kernel (2.2.14 - standard from Mandrake 7.0) is only finding 64mb). The installer showed 65mb, I tried entering 256 but it was

Re: [expert] RAM above 64mb not found

2000-03-10 Thread Rial Juan
Don't know if it works, but have you tried appending 255M instead of 256? I remember to have read something about this on the utah-glx list, and it seemed to help... On Mar 10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, As per the subject I have a Panrix machine with an AMD Athalon processor, it has

Re: [expert] RAM above 64mb not found

2000-03-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, you wrote: I have tried adding append "mem=256" to my lilo.conf, but this causes the kernel to hang on bootup. Umm...I *could* be wrong, but I *think* the line should be: append='mem=256MB' Give that a shot and see if it helps. Or, maybe someone will correct me, but I'm

Fwd: Re: [expert] RAM above 64mb not found

2000-03-10 Thread John Aldrich
- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [expert] RAM above 64mb not found Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:10:54 -0700 (MST) From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, you wrote: I have tried adding append "mem=256" to my lilo.conf, but th

Re: [expert] RAM above 64mb not found

2000-03-10 Thread Tom Berkley
Yeah, I think you would get a hang with append="mem=256" try append="mem=256M" You said you have 256mb not 256b didn't you? Or was that a typo in the message? David Warnock wrote: Hi, As per the subject I have a Panrix machine with an AMD

Re: [expert] RAM above 64mb not found

2000-03-10 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: Tom Berkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [expert] RAM above 64mb not found Yeah, I think you would get a hang with append="mem=256"