On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 07:13:24AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | This isn't an adequate engineering solution to the problem since it is | contrary to what I understood about the liloconfig system. | What does work is: linux mem=768M | What was in lilo.conf that I removed was 'append "mem=128M" and a | previously attempted line of 'append "mem=128M hda=autotune"' | | What I always understood was that if lilo.conf requested less RAM that | physically existed, then the linux kernel would simply ignore everything | else and proceed with the configured RAM instead of the actual RAM. Maybe a bug in lilo? Maybe lilo does something wrong with the initrd if you specify an incorrect mem= option. This is just a guess. You really shouldn't need any mem= in the first place, unless the BIOS is broken. -D -- The nice thing about windoze is - it does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'ok' first. http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
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