Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Dec 1998 09:22:03 +0000 (GMT) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: Problem with 1G RAM |
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It should work fine as long as you have carefully studied the kernel header asm-i386/page.h and made the modifications to it and arch/i386/vmlinux.lds accordingly.
By default the kernel will not work with that much memory. So, either remove a bit of memory or modify the kernel.
Regards, Tigran
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Lei Zhang wrote:
> We have a new machine: ASUS P2B-D, Dual PII 450MHz, 1G RAM, 10G EIDE. > > but i couldn't get any kernel to work with the 1G RAM (i used > append="mem=1024M" ) > > 2.0.34 gives: > Bad pmd in pte_alloc: 000000e7 > Kernel Panic: Failed to allocate buffer hash table > In Swapper task - not syncing > > 2.1.130 will just stop after "Uncompressing kernel... ok" > > right now, it's running fine with 2.1.130 and append="mem=768M" > > How do i get the 1G RAM working? > > any thoughts is appreciated! i am not on the list, so pls reply cc the reply > to me. thanks! > > Lei ZHANG > ''~`` _\\|//_ > ( o O ) ///|\\\ > *----.oooO----( )-------------------- -----------oOO--(_)---OOoo----------* > 123 Atanasoff Hall 83' Magna VF750C "Purple Cyclone" > ECE & CS, Iowa State Univ., Ames IA AMA#663505 HRCA#HM720680 > Tel: (515)292-0254 (H) SabMag FAQ: http://home.sprynet.com/ > Email: lei@iastate.edu sprynet/mstewart/sm-faq.htm Archive: > http://www.public.iastate.edu/~lei/ http://bdc2.cs.iastate.edu/~lei/sabm > ag/archiv .oooO es/ > *-------------------.oooO------------ -----------( )-- Oooo. -----------* > |__| |__| \ ( ( ) > || || \_) ) / > .ooO Ooo. (_/ > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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