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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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