Hall Stevenson wrote: > I think your way is the key... you should specify about 1mb less than > you actually have. Again, with "modern" kernels, higher than 2.0.36 and > a relatively modern motherboard/bios, this "append" statement is no > longer needed.
there seems to be a bios option in many systems that change wether you need append= or not too. i have 3 identical systems with identical bios versions(Supermicro dual p3-800s) 2 of them "detect" 64MB and reboot normally. the 3rd one "detects" 256MB correctly but hangs on reboot. since the machines arrived in different geographical regions i haven't had the chance to compare bios settings. also, last year when i owned an abit bp6(*shudder*) the system detected all 256MB, but when i did a flash upgrade i had to start using the append=256MB .. so, i guess what im gettin at is even the new boards have to have this sometimes, depends on the bios configuration(the dual p3-800 boards came on the market about 3 months ago) nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
