"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> > thanks for the overwhelming amounts of replies.
> > Now the funny thing is that I have 2 boxes both LM7.02, on one the append
> > worked, on the other box, there was already an append in the lilo.conf, I
> > tried to add the mem=191M, and it accepted that when I ran /sbin/lilo, but
> > when I looked at the amount of Memory, no such luck.
> > Then took out the append statement that already existed, included my own
> > append statement, no such luck.
> > After that copied the lilo.conf from the other box to the one with the
> > problems. Again, no such luck.
> >
> > Any ideas???
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Fred de Klein
> >
>
> Fred,
>
> What does your append line look like for the machine that does NOT work? If
> memory serves me it should be something like this:
>
> append="mem=191M","something_else=this"
>
> You'll need to check the archives or a man page for the exact punctuation but
> it should be enough to get you started.
>
> --
> Joseph S. Gardner
> Senior Designer / Technical Support
> Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH
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My lilo.conf has a line like
append="mem=191M otheroption=this"
and it works fine.
Dumb question, did you run lilo after copying the conf file???
