Re: Kernel panics when using 64MB+ RAM

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Sat, 11 Dec 1999 22:31:36 +0000 (GMT)


On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Marius Aamodt Eriksen wrote:

> Nup, 1 DIMM for me... Again.. I (again IMHO) _doubt_ that it has
> anything to do with bad memory, I would simple expect an application
> to segfault, not the whole kernel to lock up.
>
> Thanks for trying to help :)

If the Oopses are happening at boot time, try booting with "mem=127M".
Apparently some peripherals/chipsets/BIOSes like to nab bits of RAM at
the end, or something.

Otherwise, it seems likely that you have flaky hardware of some sort -
trying swapping out the RAM.

Matthew.

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