No, it is actually a BIOS issue, which is why you are told in many docs
on this issue to upgrade your BIOS. LILO does not actually care about
the memory at all, it just passes the commandline options to the kernel.

Windows might have other methods (non-BIOS) of determining the amount of
memory, because I have never seen it make a mistake.

Buchan

Michael Proto wrote:
> 
> Phil Connor wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Larry Tobos
> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 1:34 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: [expert] Memory Size
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > This is not true anymore for 2.2 kernels, and since ..
> >
> > Wish that were true in all cases, got a p3/600 setting right behind me that
> > required me to append the memory in Lilo. Seems it's more bios related since
> > the kernel version is 2.2.15
> 
> Actually, I believe this is a limitation of lilo itself, not the BIOS or
> kernel version.
> 
> In any case, adding the following to /etc/lilo.conf should fix it:
> 
> append="mem=320M"
> 
> M.
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