You need to add it to your kernel boot-up. It depends on if you use grub or lilo.
in lilo you will add an 'append="mem=3Dnopentium" in grub, add it to your kernel line for each kernel you have i.e: [/boot/grub/menu.lst] kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-4SGI_XFS_1.1 rw root=/dev/hda3 hdc=ide-scsi devfs=nomount mem=3Dnopentium [An example of mine.] On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 23:03, Christopher Henderson wrote: > SPAM: -------------------- Start SpamAssassin results ---------------------- > SPAM: This mail is probably spam. The original message has been altered > SPAM: so you can recognise or block similar unwanted mail in future. > SPAM: See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. > SPAM: > SPAM: Content analysis details: (6.4 hits, 5 required) > SPAM: X_ANTIABUSE (2.4 points) Found a X-AntiAbuse header > SPAM: MAILTO_WITH_SUBJ (1.9 points) URI: Includes a link to send a mail with a >subject > SPAM: SUPERLONG_LINE (0.4 points) BODY: Contains a line >=199 characters long > SPAM: DATE_IN_PAST_12_24 (1.7 points) Date: is 12 to 24 hours before Received: date > SPAM: > SPAM: -------------------- End of SpamAssassin results --------------------- > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > ------=_NextPart_000_0013_01C291C3.05CC23B0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > My box crashes every twenty minutes or so and I was told that addeding = > "mem=3Dnopentium" somewhere fixes that. Where do I add that? FYI I'm = > running Red Hat 8.0 with the latest kernel updates from Red Hat. > > Thnx, > ~Christopher > ------=_NextPart_000_0013_01C291C3.05CC23B0 > Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> > <HTML><HEAD> > <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = > charset=3Diso-8859-1"> > <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1126" name=3DGENERATOR> > <STYLE></STYLE> > </HEAD> > <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>My box crashes every twenty minutes or = > so and I was=20 > told that addeding "mem=3Dnopentium" somewhere fixes that. Where = > do I add=20 > that? FYI I'm running Red Hat 8.0 with the latest kernel updates from = > Red=20 > Hat.</FONT></DIV> > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Thnx,</FONT></DIV> > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>~Christopher</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> > > ------=_NextPart_000_0013_01C291C3.05CC23B0-- -- VB programmers ask why no one takes them seriously, it's somewhat akin to a McDonalds manager asking employees why they don't take their 'career' seriously.
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