On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 17:34, Matthias Fricke wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> I am using 2.4.18 Kernel on a 512MB RAM Mashine.
> Kernel detects only 256 MB.
> If I am booting lilo with mem=512M the kernel Ooopses and panics.
>
> The kernel is patched with kernel patch of kernel.org from februar 18
> th.
>From my experience this usually means that the system in question has a
display card that uses some of the main memory. SInce I see this is a
laptop this makes even more sense. Try booting with mem=504M or less (if
your display card uses more memory) and there's a good chance that the
panic will go away.
Cheers,
Gilad.
-- Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Code mangler, senior coffee drinker and VP SIGSEGV Qlusters ltd."You got an EMP device in the server room? That is so cool." -- from a hackers-il thread on paranoia
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