[ale] Kernel halts with over 500megs of RAM

joestory at bellsouth.net joestory at bellsouth.net
Fri Jul 5 22:39:57 EDT 2002



> 
> From: "Jim Popovitch" <jimpop at rocketship.com>
> Date: 2002/07/05 Fri PM 10:30:02 EDT
> To: <joestory at bellsouth.net>, 
> 	<ale at ale.org>
> Subject: RE: [ale] Kernel halts with over 500megs of RAM
> 
> Hi Joe,
> 
> Try the append="mem=... but with a lower number.  For instance, I once had a
> box that refused to accept mem=128, but mem=126 worked like a charm.
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: joestory at bellsouth.net [mailto:joestory at bellsouth.net]
> > Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 10:25 PM
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Subject: [ale] Kernel halts with over 500megs of RAM
> >
> >
> > Running slackware 8 with kernel 2.4.5.
> > Tyan Thunder 2 ATX board. Running Dual 333mhz Proc's.
> >
> > Everything boots fine with two sticks of 256mb edo RAM, DIMMS.
> > Anything more and it gives me a message dealing with interrupts
> > and a problem with sched.c at line 709.  I would love to have
> > this working.  1GIG! of RAM wooo hooo.  I know the RAM is good,
> > 98se can see every bit of it.  I will try updating my kernel
> > sources and recompiling after sending this e-mail.  I have also
> > tried the append="mem=  " option in lilo.conf.  If you have any
> > suggestions, please send'em.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Joe
> >
> >
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