Adrian Bunk wrote:

> It seems that the change Christoph introduced (from Red Hat's tree) in the
> lines around 810 (line number in -rc3) in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c didn't
> consider the case that someone want's to _in_crease the size of the memory
> by using the "mem="  parameter.
> 
> It's the following Changeset:
> 
> <--  snip  -->
> 
>    Changeset details for 1.383.2.25
> 
>    ChangeSet@1.383.2.25  2002-04-15 23:18:40-03:00  hch@infradead.org
>    all diffs
>    [PATCH] mem= command lines fixes.
>    Another patch from Red Hat's tree:
>      mem= command-line adapts itself to existing e820 values.
>      without this patch mem=xxxM ignores bios-reserved areas and uses
>      them as RAM. This patch makes the kernel skip these areas
>    arch/i386/kernel/setup.c@1.38  2001-04-05
>    21:19:09-03:00  hch@infradead.org
> 
> <--  snip  -->

Thanks for your help. I changed the code to the way it was before and it 
worked fine. I'm running 2.4.19-rc3 now. :-)

I created a patch to undo this modification in case anyone has the same 
problem, it's attached in this message.

Bye,

   Léo


  Leonardo Gomes Figueira
  sabbath@planetarium.com.br