Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Dec 1999 03:00:42 +0000 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.29 opps with "mem=64" in 128mg box |
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On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Thomas Zimmerman wrote:
> I have been losing random bytes on my ide drives when running any of > the 2.3.X kernels. I don't loose any bytes when running RH 6.1 > 2.2.12-20. I used this to test for changes in files during file IO: > [qubes@Darklands qubes]$ while true; do tar cf test.tar .netscape; > md5sum test.tar; done; > 37dcf949b1285f21ef1fa54612fb69b3 test.tar > 643983ce42ba7da463c14afd2591aa80 test.tar > 77d1e7fac33b4c5073fa1a12d2a04952 test.tar
Ooh, yuck.
> I don't like that above....so I rebooted and tried to test the lower > half of my memory by using "mem=64" to isolate. Box didn't boot and > gave me an oops (attached)
You probably mean "mem=64M". Otherwise, it tries to load and decompress the kernel into 64 bytes and doesn't have a lot of fun with it... :)
Matthew.
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