On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 03:42:45PM -0700, Craig Cruden wrote: > >If you boot with mem=1024M is it suddenely much > faster ? > > Yes, it boots much faster -- what does this mean > (other than I have a lot of useless memory :P ) Generally it means your BIOS is broken. You'll probably find that mem=xxxxk where xxxx is about 32Mb less than amount expected will be the cut off but can you boot it and post your /proc/mtrr