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I have a Compaq Prosignia 500.  It has 16 MB on the motherboard - which
Redhat 6.0 sees.  The Problem is that if I install any more RAM,  the OS
doesn't recognize it.  EISA configuration see's addtional RAM,  I see
the additional RAM at POST,  and Netware (previously) saw the additional
RAM.
I just upgraded to the latest BIOS from Compaq - but this didn't help.
I have tried inserting the following line in the lilo.conf file:

append="mem=144M"

But this did not help.
I then took the amount of RAM in the machine down to 48 MB,  removed the
above line from the lilo.conf file,  but Linux still only see's 16 MB of
RAM.
If anyone has any ideas,  please let me know - here and/or at my email

Thanks for any ideas,

Dave Norinsky
American Color

Try this:  at the boot: prompt type

linux mem=144

if that works, you are not editing the lilo file correctly.  Also after you
make the change in lilo.conf did you run lilo again to accept the new
setting?

The irony of this is that the reason the Compaq machines do this is that
they conform to the bios specification as developed by IBM whereas other
bios manufacturers do not.

j