On Tuesday 06 February 2001 18:36, Chris Reeves wrote:
Not necessarily. The append parameter may be either a global option (in which case it will become a default for all kernels) or in the individual image section for parameters specific to a particular kernel. For example, you may have two kernel images - on with and one without the driver for your network card compiled in. The first kernel may need parameters for irq/io for the card, while the second card will not need these as they can be set in /etc/modules.conf.
Putting an = sign in between the 'mem' and the '120M' may help though.
Bye, Chris
Chris! You are not only right, you are 100% right, there was a = missing between 'mem' and '128M'. I apologise for having put so many brain cells in motion because of this. Even though I've written the lilo.conf file so many times I make such a mistake, perhaps it's easyer to get blind on details when you do the same thing very often. But now I've at least learned something. The sum of all this seems to be that; the only way to configure the system to detect the right amount of RAM, if the kernel doesn't detect it by itself, is via the bootup config file. Thank's all for your help. Cheers, ei -- @~~ EagleIce ~ gnu4u@linux.nu ~~@ @~~ Running GNU/Linux & KDE ~~@