Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 24 Feb 2001 09:54:47 -0600 | | From | Philipp Rumpf <> | | Subject | Re: PCI oddities on Dell Inspiron 5000e w/ 2.4.x |
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On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 05:36:47AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Jeff Lessem wrote: > > > > >Also, how much memory does this machine have? That "13ff0000" does worry > > >me a bit.. > > > > The comptuer has 320MB. At this point I am ready to conclude that the > > computer is broken in some way, because nobody else with an Inspiron > > 5000e that I have heard from has anything like this problem.
> I didn't believe that you'd have 320MB just because it's such an odd > number, but the problem is that Linux apparently starts allocating the PCI > address space just _under_ the 320MB mark (you probably have some memory > reserved for ACPI that doesn't show up in the e820 memory map).
Jeff, are you using the e820 memory map at all ? In particular, are you using grub or some other buggy bootloader that insists on specifying a mem= option on the kernel command line ? There should be a kernel command line message very early on, what does that say ?
Also, can you give us the E820 memory map (kernel messages starting with BIOS-e820) ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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