Is it possible you have one of those systems that "shares" the ram with the
video? In that case, you're motherboard is using 8 megs of ram for video,
leaving you 23 megs for the system.
Russ
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Glyn Millington
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 1:49 AM
To: Mandrake Expert
Subject: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut
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.
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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