Did you run /sbin/lilo again (as root after making the changes)?
If not, you'd get this symptom. LILO doesn't read this config file when it
at boot-time. I can't, the config file is on a partition it can't see yet
(Linux hasn't started at this point).
What happens is you rerun /sbin/lilo and the config file is read - the
options, like your append line, get written to the mbr where lilo CAN read
them (the technical details are probably different but this is the gist of
it!)
Therefore, you make you changes to the config file, run /sbin/lilo and then
try booting Linux back-up. You should find all 256 meg is now available.
BTW, you can also just enter
LILO BOOT: linux mem=256M
insetad of just
LILO BOOT: linux
when you are firing up....
Trust me - this WILL work!
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
Bob McCouch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 17/02/2000 08:52:33
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Subject: [newbie] Mandrake failing to recognize all my RAM
Hi all,
New to the list. Saw an archive about the same problem I'm having.
I have 256MB of RAM and mdk insists that I only have 65. I tried the
append="mem=256M" addition to lilo.conf with no results. Anyone else
have any other insight on the problem? So far I'm loving Mandrake and
Linux, but it'd be really nice if it recognized more than 1/4 of my
memory...
Thanks,
Bob
