Re: Can't configure grub to use less memory

[Erik Troan]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 15:19:58 -0700
"Darren Gamble" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Lastly, we also tried to manually add "mem=800M" onto the end of the kernel
> boot line.  The GNU grub faq suggests to do this, and kickstart also does
> this if it's specified in its configuration.  If that's done, when the
> machine boots the root filesystem doesn't get found and the system halts.
> Bootup reports:
> 

This is the right idea. When you did this, is the initrd still getting loaded? 
You should see messages from the initrd before you get this.

Erik

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