On 25-Jul-98 Hubert Mantel wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jul 1998 Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
I have just finished an installation of S.u.S.E.-5.2 on a laptop. For some reason, the laptop is apparently not recognising that it has 20MB RAM on board and thinks there are only 4MB. When I noticed this I decided to press on anyway, to see what would happen.
Oops. There are not many machines where the memory size is misdetected. Use the kernel parameter:
boot: Linux mem=20M
Thanks for the tip, Hubert. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with Linux failing to detect, but it is the hardware: there is a fault in the SIMM bay holding the 16MB add-on RAM chip -- even the BIOS can't find it. So don't worry about S.u.S.E.'s performance in this situation! I still think the installation went well in the circumstances. When I get the SIMM bay fixed I'm looking forward to running Linux on this baby: at present it takes 30 minutes to boot, 10 minutes to login, and 20 minutes to shut down! Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Date: 25-Jul-98 Time: 12:58:05 -------------------------------------------------------------------- - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e