MANDRAKE and 1Gig of RAM

robotmsn757 · 03-07-2003, 03:47 PM

I had 512 and the new Mandrake 9.0 which I liked. I upgraded to 1 Gig of RAM and Mandrake would no longer boot!! I installed Redhat but do not like it as much, but it had no problems with the RAM. Any ideas??

Electro · 03-07-2003, 08:13 PM

Sounds like you need to compile your kernel so that LINUX can handle your 1 gigabyte memory or more.

Just Linux has a good tutorial on how to compile your kernel.

Burke · 03-09-2003, 02:21 PM

There shouldn't be any special compiling to take place. The only thing is that you need to specify the amount of ram in your boot loader. I'm running a dual 1.12 Ghz with 2GB Ram -- Dual-booting between WinXP Pro/Mandrake 9.0.
Personally, I use LILO -- here's what you need to add to your append line in /etc/lilo.conf .

append="mem=1024M"

Inside the quotes, you may have other entries. Just add a space to the end & them add the mem=1024M to specify your Gig of ram.