Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

[Civileme]

Glyn Millington wrote:
> 
> Wow!  I tried this and it threw 


The kernel footprint is about 500K.� This is not windows where it runs 
about 4Mb (at least for NT)

A kernel panic when?� When you ran LILO?� When you rebooted as well or 
just when you rebooted?

What does your BIOS say when it tests memory at the opening screen?� 
This sounds suspiciously like a memory problem. �� The kernel normally 
accepts the amount of memory reported by the BIOS, and the append is to 
workaround BIOSes that fail to report all of it, but almost always this 
is upwards of 64M or 15 or 14M depending on whether the "hole" from 
15-16M is activated in the BIOS.

Civileme