Re: GPF with 2.3.39 at boot up

From: Christopher J. Reimer (reimer@doe.carleton.ca)
Date: Mon Jan 17 2000 - 20:49:40 EST

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On 17 Jan 2000, Marc ZYNGIER wrote:

> >>>>> "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.

Thanks, that worked for me as well.

Regards,
Chris

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