FC4 -- really slow

[Alan Cox]

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