you must check the memory test of the bios
usually if its shared memory, you would see something like for 64MB
57343 MB + 8192 MB Shared
if you don't see anything like it, and it counts straigt to 256MB, then
you may not be using a shared memory architecture.
try the append=mem=256MB on your lilo prompt.
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Ronneil Camara wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike Blancas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 10:21 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [plug] additional memory
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Mike Maravillo wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 08:29:25AM -0500, Ronneil Camara wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Kse some boards have embedded VGA adaptors which will eat
> > > > > upwards from 2MB
> > > > > of memory for display memory. You should take this
> > into account when
> > > > > putting your 'mem=' kernel command line option.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Ok. What would be the ideal approach for this scenario?
> > >
> > > Hmm... subtract the amount of shared memory allocated to video
> > > from physical memory?
> > >
> > But usually shared video memory is limited up to 8MB only.
>
> So, if we put addtn'l RAM w/c totalled to 256mb, append="mem=248M" will
> work?
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