Not only is it possible, it is in fact the case here! Should
have remembered that this is the set-up - I'm going to add more
memory soon, and it's not bad even now, but the inconsistency was
worrying.
Thanks to all for help with this.
Glyn M.
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 08:27:59AM -0700, thus spake Russ Johnson:
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [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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