Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 May 1998 23:50:08 +0100 (BST) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: Memory errors with 64MB RAM? |
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Hi Mike.
> I recently upgraded the RAM in a 166MHz Pentium system and the new > memory doesn't seem to work (I get filesystem corruption, kernel > paging errors, and random SIGSEGVs to various programs).
> Obviously, the first suspect is that the new memory is defective or > incompatible. But I thought I would take a long shot and ask here > if there is anything to watch out for when running Linux on a PC > with 64MB or more memory.
From bitter experience, I learned to watch for BIOS's that grab the top 4k of RAM for themselves. That's not a problem if Linux uses the value reported by the BIOS itself, but if you start sticking append lines specifying "mem=xxM" then watch out !!!
I now have 128M of RAM on my machine, but if I specify "mem=128M" then it locks solid EVERY time for precicely this reason. However, if I specify "mem=131068k" instead, thus reducing the amount of memory by just 4k, I get NO problems whatsoever...
Best wishes from Riley.
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