The first letter of the extension of the file is the letter "l", not the
number one. You might want to try
# pico /boot/grub/menu.[TAB]
then you will see what files there are, and you are sure to get one that
exists.
Buchan
"chronos ." wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I`m using mandrake 7.1 and it only sees 64 of my 128 of ram. I went to
>mandrakeuser.org and found the following - edit /boot/grub/menu.1st as root then
>"find" kernel (hd0,5)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6. I`m supposed to append mem=128 to the
>end of that line.I`m using pico to edit the file. Now then ctrl-W does not work. It
>asks what file so I tell it the above and it says not found. So what am I looking for
>? Typing pico /boot/grub/menu.1st helps me make a file entittled boot. Nothing
>more.And then promptly places it in my home root directory. So how do I get to the
>actual file linux uses to boot and append to it ? I need very explicit instructions.
>Obviously I`m missing something here.
> Thank you, Chronos.
>
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