A guess: 8Meg for video ram (no seperate video memory) + 1Meg for the
640k "regular" memory. (Thank you, Bill.)
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote:
| Wow! I tried this and it threw my kernel into a panic - had to
| dig out the rescue disk etc. My first real emergency!
|
| I'm only guessing - is the kernel using up 9 MB? and panics when
| not allowed that space?
| All explantions welcome!
|
| TIA
|
| Glyn
|
|
|
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|
| On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 06:48:11AM -0400, thus spake Dan Westlake:
| > Hi Glyn
| >
| > Change it to append ="mem=32M" then type lilo <enter> to run the change and
| > reboot.
| > >
| > > 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.
| > > Can anyone tell me what is going on here?
| > > Is Linux not detecting the RAM?
| > > Is it discounting space used by the kernel?
| > >
| > > I've trawled the docs but couldn't find any clues.
| > >
| > > TIA
| > >
| > > Glyn M.
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