On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Dion Curchin wrote:
> I'm having some problems with a Mandrake 7.2 beta...it fails to
> detect my 256 MB of ram. Instead in decides I have only 16 and consequently
> my smp machine runs like a dog, KDE is impossibly slow to initialise. I've
> looked through a number of books and docs and not found anything meaningful.
> Are there any boot commands I can give at startup to tell my machine that I
> have a specific amount of ram or whatever??
Upgrade your motherboard BIOS to one that reports memory size properly.
:-)
Alternately, edit /etc/lilo.conf, and add this line
append="mem=256M"
in the top section.
re-run lilo, shutdown, reboot. Should all be OK now.
DaZZa
P.S. You can make the line read
append="mem=260496k"
or whatever the figure your memory count reads for a more accurate
inclusion.
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