Civileme.....excuse me a moment, but I've been under the
impression that the 'm' following the number is case sensitive
and needs to be upper case, as in "mem=192M". Is my
impression incorrect?
Alan
Civileme wrote:
>
> 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
