[ale] lilo question(s)

[George A. Nies]

handran at mindspring.com wrote:

> Problem 1:      When I (re)install lilo I get the following error msg:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------
> ide: probable bad entry for /dev/hdc
> ide: to fix it, run: /usr/src/linux/scripts MAKEDEV.ide
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x83 may not be accessible
> ------------------------------------------------------

Just a guess, but perhaps you need to re-compile your kernel with the
ide bugfixes turned on.

> Problem 2:
> 
> I have 96 M of ram but when I do 'free', all linux see's is 64M. I know
> about the append="mem=96M" in lilo.conf,  BUT I already have an
> append="cdu31a=0x230" for my sony cdu33a cdrom drive and I have discovered
> that lilo.conf don't like two append statements! If I comment out the 

You need one append statement...
append="cdu31a=0x230 mem=96M"