Hi Steve,
Steven Fosdick wrote:
As a double check you can look at how much memory the kernel reports when it starts. Though this usually disappears too fast to see you can get it back by running the 'dmesg' command. the first few lines will look something like:
Dmesg gives me this:-
Linux version 2.2.16 (root@Pentium.suse.de) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (releas e)) #1 Wed Aug 2 20:22:26 GMT 2000 Detected 666685 kHz processor. ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 1330.38 BogoMIPS Memory: 63324k/66556k available (1448k kernel code, 412k reserved, 980k data, 68 k init, 0k bigmem)
I assume from this that you have bootmagic on the MBR and have LILO installed on the boot record of the primary linux partition. If that is the case then I would expect the configuration to work correctly.
The exception would be if bootmagic had moved a LILO boot record from the MBR, where the Linux installer had put it, to the Linux partition. In that case it may be possible that the 'lilo' command would not update the boot parameters correctly.
I will double check, when I installed I specified lilo to go on /boot and Bootmagic is on MBR. The SCSI emulation works OK so I assume that everything is being loaded from the append line of lilo.conf.
Many thanks all for the help so far
Andy Cartwright ivorydawn@ntlworld.com