Re: [ILUG] LILO memory config

From: Vincent Cunniffe (vincent at domain cunniffe.net)
Date: Thu 20 Jul 2000 - 11:54:20 IST


kevin lyda wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 11:29:57AM +0100, Vincent Cunniffe wrote:
> > If you have a machine with 256MB of memory, and you specify
> > 'append="mem=384M"' in lilo.cfg, what happens?
> >
> > Boot fail, ignore, or what?
>
> it downloads and installs more ram.
>
> if you don't have a network it gives up sheepishly.

Bold ;-)

Actually, in the spirit of adventure, and because it's someone
else's machine, I'm off to test it now ;-)

I'll report the results.

Vin



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