>
> Sorry if this is old hat.
>
> At work I have a Compaq Prolinea 590 with 48MB RAM installed,
> where BIOS reports (from dmesg): BIOS query detected 16384KB RAM.
Yep, seen this, not sure which model Compaq however.
append="mem=48M"
works for me.
are you allowed spaces in the append?
Paul
> I have tried append = "mem=2F2E000" and many other values, even
> append = "mem=F00000" -- that in my book is 15 MB, and even then
> there was trouble. Maybe this is a Lilo (v 19) bug and no
> kernel bug? What happens is that there is not enough memory for
> the OS and the kernel freezes, or with some values on the mem-
> parameter boots up but fails to link in most libs, etc.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> __________________________________________________________________
>
> Background information...
>
>
>
> dmesg says...
> Warning : Unknown PCI device (e11:1000). Please read include/linux/pci.h
> Warning : Unknown PCI device (e11:2). Please read include/linux/pci.h
>
>
> I am currently using linux-2.0.30, so I compared this with a much
> later version I had around:
>
>
> linux-2.0.30 source:
>
> grep -Ei 'Compaq|Prolinea' include/linux/pci.h
>
> #define PCI_VENDOR_ID_COMPAQ 0x0e11
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_COMPAQ_1280 0x3033
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_COMPAQ_THUNDER 0xf130
>
> No trace of the Prolinea 590 there...
>
>
> linux-2.1.72 source:
>
> grep -Ei 'Compaq|Prolinea' include/linux/pci.h
>
> #define PCI_VENDOR_ID_COMPAQ 0x0e11
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_COMPAQ_1280 0x3033
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_COMPAQ_SMART2P 0xae10
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_COMPAQ_NETEL100 0xae32
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_COMPAQ_NETEL10 0xae34
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_COMPAQ_NETFLEX3I 0xae35
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_COMPAQ_NETEL100D 0xae40
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_COMPAQ_NETEL100PI 0xae43
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_COMPAQ_NETEL100I 0xb011
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_COMPAQ_THUNDER 0xf130
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_COMPAQ_NETFLEX3B 0xf150
>
> Still no trace of the Prolinea...
>
>
>
> cat /proc/pci
>
> PCI devices found:
> Bus 0, device 15, function 0:
> ISA bridge: Compaq Unknown device (rev 2).
> Vendor id=e11. Device id=2.
> Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts.
> Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
> VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5434 (rev 142).
> Fast devsel. IRQ 11.
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x40000000.
> Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
> Non-VGA device: Compaq Unknown device (rev 1).
> Vendor id=e11. Device id=1000.
> Medium devsel. IRQ 32. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=43.
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x448230.
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x4c8260.
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x448230.
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x4c82c0.
> I/O at 0x10000e10.
> I/O at 0xe3000144.
>
>
> __________________________________________________________________
>
> Removing the append, linux boots up fine using 16MB memory...
>
> Dmesg also reports: (When booting using 16MB memory)
> BIOS query detected 16384KB RAM. Report errors to lma@varesearch.com
> Total RAM size was detected using BIOS function int 15h, ah=88h.
> Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
> pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fa000
> pcibios_init: entry in high memory, trying direct PCI access
> pcibios_init: Using configuration type 1
> Probing PCI hardware.
> Warning : Unknown PCI device (e11:1000). Please read include/linux/pci.h
> Warning : Unknown PCI device (e11:2). Please read include/linux/pci.h
> Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 35.94 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 14232k/16384k available (1096k kernel code, 384k reserved, 672k data)
>
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