Re: Can't use all 256M of ram!!

Hall Stevenson wrote: > I think your way is the key... you should specify about 1mb less than > you actually have. Again, with "modern" kernels, higher than 2.0.36 and > a relatively modern motherboard/bios, this "append" statement is no > longer needed. there seems to be a bios option in many sy

Re: Can't use all 256M of ram!!

* ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010203 17:48]: > On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 03:28:38PM -0800, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > Hey, > > > > After installing potato, I added: > > append="mem=256M" > > to my lilo.conf, but when I tried to boot, my kernel panicked, > > which had never happened before (even thoug

Re: Can't use all 256M of ram!!

That is strange. How much ram does it reconize when you run top after you boot? I am not using any append options in lilo.conf, and linux recognizes all 256 mb of my RAM. * Cameron Matheson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hey, > > After installing potato, I added: > append="mem=256M" > to my lilo.co

Re: Can't use all 256M of ram!!

On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 03:28:38PM -0800, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > After installing potato, I added: > append="mem=256M" > to my lilo.conf, but when I tried to boot, my kernel panicked, which had > never happened before (even though that's the same line I've used in the > past). I tri