Salman H Butt wrote:
>
> I did that, but on boot-up, Mandrake is still reporting 64MB, as is the KDE
> Control Center. What else could be the matter?
>
> Take care,
> Salman
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of SpeedMan
> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 1:06 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 not detecting RAM correctly
>
> On January 28, 2001 12:32 pm, you wrote:
>
> > Well, here is my linux.conf file:
> >
> > boot=/dev/hda5
> > map=/boot/map
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > vga=normal
> > default=linux
> > keytable=/boot/us.klt
> > lba32
> > prompt
> > timeout=50
> > message=/boot/message
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz
> > label=linux
> > root=/dev/hda5
> > append=" hdd=ide-scsi"
> > read-only
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz
> > label=failsafe
> > root=/dev/hda5
> > append=" mem=128M - failsafe"
> > read-only
> > other=/dev/fd0
> > label=floppy
> > unsafe
> >
> > So where would I put "mem=128M"? In place of append=" hdd=ide-scsi" or
> > append=" hdd=ide-scsi failsafe"? and wouldn't changing those lines screw
> > with my harddrive? Thanks for the help. I REALLY appreciate it.
>
> Salman,
>
> Under default=linux add the line ...
>
> append="mem=128m"
>
> Regards,
>
> SpeedMan
Try the following:
boot=/dev/hda5
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=linux
keytable=/boot/us.klt
lba32
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda5
append=" hdd=ide-scsi"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=failsafe
root=/dev/hda5
append=" mem=128M-failsafe"
read-only
other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe
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