Compaq Proliant 5000

[John Rowan]

John Rowan wrote:

> I just installed Core 1 on a quad PentiumPro 200 Proliant.  The BIOS 
> on this machine has a problem in that it does not properly report all 
> available RAM to the OS.  In prior installs (using LILO) I could add 
> the line append="mem=exactmap mem=640k at 0m mem=511m at 1m" and the machine 
> used all available RAM.  During the first attempt to install Core 1 on 
> the machine it reported the machine had insufficient RAM to install on 
> this hardware.  I tried the install again, at the boot prompt I entered
> linux mem=exactmap mem=640k at 0m mem=511m at 1m and the install ran fine.
> Since Core 1 doesn't use LILO I can't figure out where to add these 
> options to have grub pass it to the kernel.  I tried on the kernel 
> /vmlinz line but the machine hangs at Uncompressing Linux ... 0k 
> booting the kernel.
>
> Suggestions please.
>
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After some experimentation I found that adding mem=exactmap mem=640k at 0m 
mem=511m at 1m informed the OS about the total RAM available.  Under LILO 
you had to have the line on it's own in the lilo.conf like: 
append="mem=exactmap mem=640k at 0m mem=511m at 1m"