Re: GPF with 2.3.39 at boot up

From: Marc ZYNGIER (maz@wild-wind.fr.eu.org)
Date: Mon Jan 17 2000 - 15:59:18 EST


>>>>> "CR" == Christopher J Reimer <reimer@doe.carleton.ca> writes:

CR> This is the message I got from booting a hp vectra Xu (pentium 90,
CR> 16 MB RAM EEpro 10/100, 3c905,pcnet32 and amd...., it boots
CR> fine with the default redhat 6.1 kernel:

[snip]
I have a similar box (xu 5/133, SMP) that shows similar problems
because of broken e820 maps (predents there is memory between
640K->1MB, which is a damned lie...).

Try appending a "mem=16M" to the kernel command line, it does the
trick on my own box.

2.3.39 works fine here...

        Marc.

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