On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 10:53, Alan Cox wrote:
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:42:14AM -0400, Ed Hill wrote:
> I guess it was just a coincidence that some of the kernels worked with
> mem=12G and others didn't. I've moved the machine to a new location and
> now *none* of the kernels I have (neither mine nor the Fedora ones) will
> boot with "mem=12G". The best I can get to work is
"mem=3950M".
If you don't specify mem= does it find all your RAM. ALso what chipset ?
The chipset is an AMD-8131 and the board details are at:
http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K8D_Master-F
I did the following boot tests:
2.6.8-1.533 "mem=3950M" ==> OK
2.6.8-1.533 "mem=12G" ==> causes immediate re-boot
early in the boot stage (too fast to read)
2.6.8-1.533 wo/ any "mem=" ==> same immediate re-boot problem
And then I tried re-seated the RAM and now it won't POST. Rats! This
is disappointing.
Ed
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