Re: Kernel 2.4.18-17.7.x / Compaq Proliant 2500 / Ram size problem

[Marek Kassur <marco bpmok waw pl>]

On Wednesday 06 November 2002 21:30, Jazz wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
>
> I have a Compaq Proliant 2500 server, 2x Pentium Pro
> 200MHz, 256MB RAM, +Raid controller. I had kernel
> version
> 2.4.9-34 running fine, and upgrading to 2.4.18-17.7.x
> (SMP or not) Linux doesn't recognize more than 16MB
> RAM.
> I tried using "mem=256M" at boot (lilo), but it had no
> effect. I've read a post on this list from Marek
> Kassur
> about using the option "mem=exactmap mem=640K 0
> mem=255M 1M" but lilo returns an error "Invalid
> number". Booting with the previous kernel had no
> problem.
>
> Thank you all in advance,
>
> Jazz
>

For lilo use append to pass options to the kernel:
append = "mem=exactmap mem=640K 0 mem=255M 1M" 

Which RAID controller do you have, is it EISA SMART-2 (cpqarray) ?
I ask because it seems to have some problems with these kernels.

Marek.