vmalloc change computer wont start now

[mrinmay]

Hi,

In grub.conf file, I increased vmalloc value to 1024M from 256M and uppermem to also a pretty high value and now even though the computer starts and shows the 'Dell...BIOS Revision...' blue background screen, then a blank screen comes with the cursor blinking and nothing happens.

The computer has 1.5G of RAM.

I did this to accommodate a PCIe card (which connects to a PCI slot expansion box) else the screen shows 'Failed to initialise PCI expansion slot 1' during starts and normally starts.

What do I do?

Thanks

[Rubberman]

What card are you trying to install?

[mrinmay]

Hi,

I am installing a fpga card through a PCI slot placed on an PCI expansion box which is connected to my PC by a PCIE slot.

I managed to change the grub values by booting from a boot disk.

But

When I do dmesg with and without the fpga card on the PCI slot of the expansion box and check the difference, it shows this-
> nf2 0000:04:05.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> nf2: Found an NetFPGA-1G device (cfg revision 0)...
> nf2 0000:05:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> nf2: Found an NetFPGA-1G device (cfg revision 0)...
682c695,696

nf2 is the name of my fpga card.

Does that mean that my expansion box has got installed (I did not use the driver installation CD as it was for Windows).

(I am asking this as there are interfaces on my fpga card that are not showing up).

My fedora version is
Linux Mrinmay-Desktop 2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686 #1 SMP Tue Aug 17 22:45:56 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Thanks.