Civileme....good to know! I've not yet run into a motherboard
that didn't report the memory properly, so haven't had any
chances to test the syntax out.
Thanks.
Alan
Civileme wrote:
>
> Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
> Ummm, well at least one doc says upper-case, but it doesn't
> always work. Lower case works every time, so I have taken up the
> habit of using it.
>
> Civileme
>
> > > > 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"
> > >
