Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:35:36 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.38.3 and 2.6.39-rc4 hangs after "Booting the kernel" on quad Pentium Pro system |
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On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:16:18 +1000 Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org> wrote:
> Syt mae Alan! ;-)
G'day ;)
> Ahh, that's a new one on me, and it reveals that the kernel > has gone from 2.6.18 detecting: > > 256MB LOWMEM available. > > to 2.6.39-rc4 detecting: > > 16MB LOWMEM available. > > That would explain an awful lot..
Could be something has disturbed its memory detect or could be a bug in the PPro memory quirk.
If you boot with mem= and force the memory size what happens ?
> INT 15h = f000:f859 DOS RAM: 638K (0x9f800) INT 12h: 638K (0x9f800) > INT 15 88: 0x3c00 (15360K) INT 15 E801: 0x0000 (0K) 0x0000 (0K)
Ah.. do you have a BIOS setting called something like OS/2 compatibility ?
> Hope life is still good in Abertawe!
This part of the world has changed rather a lot. Not sure you'd recognize half of it.
Alan
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