[ale] 32m in compaq

[Byron A Jeff]

> 
> I put 32 megs of memory in a compaq Prolina and I'm trying to get the kernel
> to recognize it.  I enven changed the switch to limit 16 megs memory to off
> and it still does not see the extra 16 megs.  The CPU sees the memory.  Is
> there a switch I can pass to the kernel through lilo on boot up to tell
> it that there is 32 megs of memory on the system?

The Compaq is the problem. Add the following to LILO config file:

append="mem=32M"

Which will solve the problem.

BTW Compaq's never updated their BIOS to report over 16 Megs of RAM. Most
BIOS's will accurately report up to 64M.

Hope this helps,

BAJ