Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3242 mails)

[Martin Webster <mwebster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 19 September 2001  6:10 pm, Jim Hatridge wrote:
> HI Tony et al...
>
> On Wednesday 19 September 2001 01:22, Tony White wrote:
> > Hi Jim,
> >
> > I had a similar problem with an old 486 PC - try entering:
> > boot: linux text expert mem=16M
> > at the boot: prompt
> >
> > That worked for me
> > Tony
>
> Color me dumb, but how do I do this when I'm using a bootdisk to install
> SuSE?

As soon as LILO starts you get the "boot:" prompt and the system pauses for a 
few seconds before booting the kernel. Just type "linux text expert mem=16M" 
and hit return. On SuSE 7.2 you get the graphical boot screen and can type 
the same text in the text field at the bottom of the screen.

M