Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 not detecting RAM correctly

[hellmut]

Have you executed lilo every time you changed the config file? I used to forget
that again and again and again and...
But now it works just fine.


> Salman,
>
> I have exactly the same problem as you.  I have tried every combination of
> append=xxx and label=xxx, upper case M's and lower case m's all to no avail.
>
> However, if I press tab at bootup and type "linux mem=256m" it does work.
> It's a pain as you have to do it every time, but nice to know that you can
> access that extra memory after all.
>
> I dont understand why it works using this approach but it wont work if I
> specify it in lilo.conf.

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