Hi,

I have a Tyan S1834D Dual motherboard (Apollo Via 133 controller) with 1
Gigabyte of RAM
and two pentium-III 733 MHz. I was running kernel 2.2.14-5.0smp and the
total amount
of physical ram installed was correctly detected in /proc/meminfo , however
I just installed
2.2.16-3smp and it turns out that now the physical memory detected is 100
Mb less than what 
it should be. Below is the output of "cat /proc/meminfo" where you can see
that the line
"MemTotal" is incorrect.  I added ' append="mem=1023M" ' to /etc/lilo.conf
in order
to try to temporarily fix the problem, did "lilo -v" and rebooted but that
did not change anything (!!). I also tried booting the non-SMP kernel but
still noticed the same problem. Any idea what the problem could be? Any
known fix?

## with old 2.2.14-5.0smp kernel (standard RH 6.2 CD)

komatits-n001(101):  cat /proc/meminfo 
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  1061060608 51617792 1009442816 49016832 18149376  7925760
Swap: 542826496        0 542826496
MemTotal:   1036192 kB
MemFree:     985784 kB
MemShared:    47868 kB
Buffers:      17724 kB
Cached:        7740 kB
BigTotal:     65472 kB
BigFree:      58988 kB
SwapTotal:   530104 kB
SwapFree:    530104 kB


## with new 2.2.16-3smp kernel
## same problem even if I add ' append="mem=1023M" ' to /etc/lilo.conf +
lilo -v + reboot

komatits-n001(102): cat /proc/meminfo 
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  928153600 38350848 889802752 11272192  3284992 21065728
Swap: 542826496        0 542826496
MemTotal:    906400 kB
MemFree:     868948 kB
MemShared:    11008 kB
Buffers:       3208 kB
Cached:       20572 kB
BigTotal:         0 kB
BigFree:          0 kB
SwapTotal:   530104 kB
SwapFree:    530104 kB