I was dead sure I had read in some HOWTO, README or manual page
that in this special case,
append = "mem=0x2F2E000"
the "0x" must be omitted (NOT TRUE!). I cannot explain where I
read or believed I had read this (though probably I was reading
the BootPrompt-HOWTO). I have searched my filesystem, but not
found it, so I guess my brain must have played an evil trick on
me. :-(
Paul Wilkins <paulw@monsterboard.com.au> asked about the spaces,
so I'll comment on that: It is OK to have space after append
but not after mem. append = "mem=0x2F2E000" is OK.
I am using it now.
This value reserves some memory so Linux don't use it in case the
machine is using it for BIOS cacheing or whatever (from the
BootPrompt-HOWTO, where I read this originally).
Several people have told me to use
append = "mem=48M"
instead, and this is also in the BootPrompt-HOWTO, so I'm sure it
works fine too.
So, anyway, my apologies to everyone for taking up your very
valuable time with my misunderstanding! (But it *would* be nice
if the RAM could be autodetected...)
Thanks!
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