Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

[Stephen F. Bosch]

Civileme wrote:

> 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)

<SNIP>

As it turned out, he had a motherboard that shared system memory with the
onboard video. Linux puked because he used LILO to report more available
memory than actually existed.

-Stephen-