Matthew Hart wrote:
> 
> Thanks Steve,
> 
> I have now tried that (even tried putting an append statement in the
> LILO.CONF as well).
> Unfortunately that didn't work.
> 
> Is this going to be a Kernel rebuild job, if so any pointers?


Well, if the LILO line didn't detect it, there's something wrong further
down.

Check your BIOS to see if you have the 'Memory hole at 15M' option
turned on.  If it is, turn it off, it will cause a problem for sane
operating systems.

Beyond that, you may need to take it up with the linux-kernel mailing
list for more advice.


> > Matthew Hart wrote:
> >
> > OK, so I installed Mandrake 6.5 on my new Dual Processor box,
> >
> > Config is as follows;
> >
> > Tyan S1832DL Dual CPU motherboard (Intel BX chipset)
> > http://www.tyan.com/products/html/s1832dl.html
> > 2x Intel Celeron 466 using MSI CPU Riser cards.
> > Elsa Erazor III (TNT Ultra2 32MB)
> > 20GB EIDE ATA66 HDD
> > LS120 Floppy
> > 128MB RAM PC100.
> >
> > Problem is, that it only 64MB of RAM is detected by Mandrake.
> > I am using the SMP Kernel 2.2.13-4MDKSMP, which works fine, giving me
> > 933.88 Bogomips (so that's ok).
> >
> > But where has the other half of my 128MB DIMM gone to?
> 
> Try adding 'mem=128M' at the LILO prompt and see if it finds the rest.
> The input at LILO will look like:
> 
>         linux mem=128M

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