Re: [OFF TOPIC] Kernel Panic!!!

Doug Ledford (dledford@dialnet.net)
Tue, 17 Feb 1998 17:45:00 -0600


Pablo A. Godel wrote:
>
> Themba Mashinini wrote:
>
> > Please somebody help! My linux 2.0.30 won't boot up. After editing
> > /etc/lilo.conf putting: append="mem=32MB" and then running /bin/lilo I
^^
The mem option expects that to be specified as mem=32m, not 32MB. I would
guess that the extra B is causing the system to look in the wrong place for
the root device, especially since 30:2b isn't an IDE device like it's
suppossed to be in order for this particular machine to boot up :)

So, boot frmo a rescue floppy, or an older kernel image that doesn't have
that append line in it's area in the lilo.conf file, edit lilo.conf to have
the right mem option, re-run lilo, then reboot and see if it works. BTW,
linux should autodetect systems with 32MB of RAM. If yours doesn't
autodetect, there may be more than this at play here. Possibilities include
that the BIOS is configured to have a memory hole in the memory address
space (which would need turned off), you just have one of the very few
BIOSes that we can't detect up to 64MB on, or there is a small chunk of the
top part of the 32MB missing for BIOS shadow, in which case you might want
to use 31m instead on the mem= line. Anyway, give a shot and see what you
can find.

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