Michael M Walker wrote:
>
> i installed mandrake 7.1 for the third time and each time it reports
> that i have
> 14mb of ram and this is really slow it takes too long to start up or to
> open a program
> this is what i have for hardware
> epmvp3c2 motherboard
> amdk6-2 500mhz
> 192mb sdram micron
> riva tnt2 16mb agp
> 3dfx voodoo2 32mb pci
> there is more but it is not relevant
> my question is how can i change the amount of ram my self so it will use
> the full
> 192mb
1. open up your BIOS and close the hole at 15Mb
2. after booting with that--login as root and run top/ktop or
free to see what your memory is. If it now shows 64M, then
edit /etc/lilo.conf
IF there is a line like
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
then make it look like
append="hdc=ide-scsi mem=191m"
Otherwise, create the append line
append="mem=191m"
save
# /sbin/lilo
# shutdown -r now
And your full mem should be there
Of course you lose GRUB if you were using it, but there is plenty
of doc on how to do this for GRUB. The lilo doc is not quite as
specific unless sommething has been done in the User manual.
Civileme
