Hi Joel,
Thanks for the help. It turned out ti be that /sbin/lilo -v had to
be run to make the changes available to the kernel. Patrick
Stoddard offered this solution.
Thanks again
Clay Stapleton

Joel Hanger wrote:

> I have RH 6.2 installed also.. I did have a problem with the memory on my
> machine also.. but I used the same line, except I uses a M so it was
> append="mem=128M"     so I'm not sure if it's case sensitive.
> also.. make sure that it's not under any subsections my /etc/lilo.conf
> looks
> like this:
>
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> linear
> default=linux
> append="mem=128M"
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
>         label=linux
>         read-only
>         root=/dev/hda5
>
> other=/dev/hda1
>         label=dos
>
> other than that I'm not sure what the problem would be.
>
> Joel
>
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