Re: 2.4 status page, lightly updated

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Mon Jul 31 2000 - 00:51:43 EST


In article <200007280530.BAA00785@trampoline.thunk.org>,
 <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
>
>Capable Of Corrupting Your FS
>-----------------------------
>E820 memory setup causes crashes/corruption on some laptops[**VERY NASTY**]

This should be fixed as of -pre5. I finally got a hold of a laptop that
did this.

Please, anybody that had random hangs/oopses that went away if you
specified the memory size by hand with the "mem=xxx" boot option, test
if 2.4.0-test5 works without the workaround..

                Linus

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