Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Dec 1998 16:14:21 -0600 (EST) | From | Bob McElrath <> | Subject | Re: Problem with 1G RAM |
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On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> 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.
Will the kernel work with that much memory on the alpha platform or sparc64?
> 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!
-- Bob
Bob McElrath (mcelrath@draal.physics.wisc.edu) Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison
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