Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

[Wolfgang Bornath]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 09:48 +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
> This is an old question but for me its a new machine.  
> 
> It's an AMd K6 450 with 32 mb RAM (soon to be increased!)
> 
> On firing up Mandrake 7 (with kernel 2.2.15-0.18mdk), it tells me
> I have 23MB ram.  I've added
> append =  "mem=32m" 
> to lilo.conf with no effect.

Try Dan's advice (mem=32M, run /sbin/lilo after change). If that
is not the solution then look at your graphics board. Does it
have all it's memory on the board or does it use a part of RAM?
Some graphics boards use 8 or 16M of the system's memory so you
have to substract that amount from RAM.

wobo
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