On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 22:08, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > - my computer has 40 mb internal. > > > > Does Dachstein only allocate 32 mb?? > > > > I see this in the monitor: > > > > Free Memory > > 16 % of your system memory is currently used. > > 33044 K bytes available > > 25356 K bytes free > > > > How do allocate all my memory, and would I need it for some reason? > > If you've got 40 Meg in your system, but 'free' only reports 32 Meg, > it's a problem between your BIOS, syslinux (the boot-loader), and the > linux kernel. There are several points at which things can break, which > sounds like what is happening in your case. If for some reason you > really want to access that extra 8 Meg (not really necessary, unless > you're running a lot of "extras"), check standard linux documentation > and howto sites for debugging info. If all else fails, and you can't > get automatic detection of memory size working properly, you can pass > the kernel a parameter to force the memory size to 40 Megs (I don't > recall off-hand what kernel parameter to set,
In this case it would be: mem=40M Add this to the line in syslinux.cfg that begins with "default linux" Ewald Wasscher ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
