On Wednesday 08 January 2003 04:00 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 08 Jan 2003 9:39 pm, et wrote: > > the NOapic option is one of a few switches that can be passed to the > > kernel durring install or bootup. if this Mother Board has onboard video, > > that will also cause a freeze in about the same place if the mem=xxx > > (with xxx being the amount of system memory minus the "shared" video > > memory so that an 8 meg shared video mem and an 128 meg video stick, I > > would pass mem=118, with an extra 2 megs thrown in for comfort > > But how do you pass these? > > Anne At initial boot with the CD1 in hit F1 instead of enter and then at the boot prompt you can type "linux mem=xxx" and then hit enter. Once it boots up then you can go to lilo and append the mem= . Or on 9.0 you might be able to do F1 and go right to configure lilo, I can't remember. At any rate the append line needs to have the "mem=xxx " added to lilo. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842
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