Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Michael J Field" <> | Date | Mon, 9 Sep 1996 10:40:39 -0500 | Subject | Re: your mail |
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9 Sep 1996, Hans Lermen wrote
> On Sun, 8 Sep 1996, Mike Field wrote: >> I have been having some serious/curious problems in trying >> to increase RAM on my machine from 64Mb to 128Mb. >> >> Motherboard: Tyan Tomcat I, P90, 512kb cache >> (with tag ram chip), latest bios (v3.02 award). > >I'm seeing this also: > > Tyan Tomcat DUAL S1562D, (AWARD v3.02), 2x Pentium 166
>All worked fine (SMP-Kernel 2.9.18) with 64MB, and it _auto-rebooted_ >with 128MB and destroyed _all_ my linux-partitions :-((( >So unfortunately I haven't any logs or oopses. > >BTW: The memory is reported OK by the BIOS. > >... going back to 64MB :-(
I had a disk trashing problem with an earlier upgrade. Consequently, when I tried 128Mb I changed fstab so that only / and /usr would be mounted.
At the moment, however, I am getting the machine to recognize 128Mb provided that the BIOS is set so that only the first 64Mb RAM is accessed. Maybe the line in BIOS about 64Mb OR 512Mb *really* means that: If > 64Mb must be 512Mb :-(
I am dubious about the BIOS. When I put the motherboard in (64Mb ) I couldn't access my modem. After talking with Tyan, it turned out that the only way to access the modem was my disabling second COM port in the BIOS.
I am also very curious about the faults that showed up when I had the / partition on my ide drive. There were *big* differences between 2.0.7 and 2.0.17 kernels. So perhaps it is not just the BIOS.
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