Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: a memory-related problem? | From | Ronald Bultje <> | Date | 17 Jun 2001 21:26:50 +0200 |
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On 17 Jun 2001 06:10:02 -0700, Colonel wrote: > In clouddancer.list.kernel, you wrote: > > > >Hi, > > > >I just added 128 MB of RAM to my machine which already had 128 MB and > >which has 128 MB swap. 128 MB RAM + 128 MB swap (either the new or the > >old 128 MB RAM) works, but the combination of that, 256 MB RAM + 128 MB > >swap, crashes the compu during startup with either an "unresolved- > >symbols in init" message (which is completely random, each boot shows > >different unresolved references) or with oopses right after starting > >init. > > It's more likely that the two RAM sticks differ. I had a similar > problem in a Windoze machine awhile ago. Move one stick of RAM into > another bank, i.e. with 4 memory slots, use #1 and #3. If you only > have 2 memory slots, return/sell what you have and buy 2 sticks at the > same time.
P6b has three mem-slots. I would get "unresolved errors in init" if I had 2x64+1x128 sticks, and I would get oopses if I had 2x128M sticks. So there is indeed a weird difference. I just noticed this: if I supply "linux-2.4.4 mem=255M" instead of "linux-2.4.4 mem=256M" at the lilo prompt, it does work. Is this a bug in the code that handles options given at startup-time? (I only tried this for 2x128 sticks but I suppose this is the same for 2x64+1x128 sticks - I guess I'm too lazy to try it out).
Regards,
Ronald Bultje
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