You right I might not need more than 512MB ram, but remember one Famouse person once said a pc will never need more than 640KB of ram.......
what happened there? hehehehe On Saturday, 21 June 2003 15:22, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Saturday June 21 2003 06:00 am, Tsyko wrote: > > I have 1GB of ram, when I try a fresh install of Mandrake, it > > flashes a message on the screen and then locks up with all the > > lights on the keybaord flashing.. > > > > > > It works if I take a dimm out of the machine reducing it to > > 512MB.. > > Add 'mem=860M' to your lilo.conf's append line, and then run > 'lilo'. You can then shut down and put the other ram back in. > Should eliminate the kernel panic on boot. Another option is to > install the enterprise kernel. It's capable of addressing 1gb and > more of ram. BUT, you're better off performance wise usin the > regular kernel and limiting ram to 860. OTOH, I doubt you'll ever > need more than 512 anyhow ;)
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