John Murray Boyle wrote:
>Hi
>
>I recently upgraded my memory from 256MB to 1GB, now linux only sees 896MB.
>
>I am using Mandrake 8.0 and I have tried inserting the line
>append="mem=1024M" into lilo, but to no avail.
>
>I tried installing red hat and this sees all the memory, but I prefer
>Mandrake.
>
>Does anyone know what could be causing this? I am a relative newbie with
>linux.
>
When you installed Mandrake did it detect the ram, try booting the
mandrake installation cd, and going through the stages until you get to
the bit it asks for security level and exact memory amount, if it sees
it there but not when you boot normally, then my guess would be the
kernel needs recompiling, this is only a guess, I know you can specify
the exact amount on said screen, i dont know what effect this has on
the actuall installation but it may help.
HTH
David
>Thanks in advance.
>
>John
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