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Re: 80 MB ram in debian system



[Concerning passing boot parameter with a boot disk.]

Ossama Othman <othman@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu> writes:
> If you are just starting out and don't want to mess around
> with configuration files or just want to experiment, you can manually
> enter "mem=80M" (don't type the quotes) or whatever amount of RAM you have
> at the "boot:" line.  You would have to do this each time you boot.  That
> would be equivalent to 'append="mem=80M"' in your lilo.conf file.  LILO
> really is the better way to go, as Alex pointed out.

How do I get the the "boot:" prompt?  I remember seeing it a while
back, but now the first thing that I see is "Loading...".

Kirk Hilliard


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