If you like, you could try mem=65408K. (64M - 128k) Another option would
be to turn ACPI off & see how it goes.
That NVS reserved memory is interesting. (That's the type 4 region at the
end.) Since Linux does not currently recognize NVS memory (and if it did, I
don't know how it would address that range), any operation looking like an
ACPI sleep is likely too be a bad thing...
Nathan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pavel Machek [SMTP:pavel@suse.cz]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 4:02 AM
> To: Alan Cox; Zook, Nathan; linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu; david parsons
> Subject: Re: "My" crash when reading partition table
>
> Hi!
>
> > > I reported crash with reading partition table. Now I've found out:
> > > something is wrong with memory detection. Passing mem=8M makes machine
> > > boot again. That's probably why it was even in ac-10.
> >
> > Can you turn on the E820 table debugging printks and send them to the
> > kernel list ?
>
> I believe it is turned on by default.
>
> > Well, barring something horrible like e820 returning bogus values
> > that the kernel takes as gospel (what do the memory region: kernel
> > messages say?), it may be the problem the fellow from fujitsu
> > reported (boundary conditions -- the one horrible flaw I've got as a
> > programmer :-( )
> >
> > Could you try this patch and see if it makes any difference (I don't
> > think that mm/init.c has changed since then):
>
> It did NOT help.
>
> Anyway, system is toshiba satellite 4030CDT with 64Meg of ram. Strange
> thing is that I'm not able to boot with mem=63M. mem=60M works fine,
> mem=8M works, too.
>
> During bootup (and before crash), I can see a list for a short
> while. Therefore, I copied only (usable) + interesting lines.
>
> 654336 @ 0 (usable)
> 65929216 @ 100000 (usable)
> 512 @ 100b6e000 type 4
>
> It looks sane to me.
>
> Does it help?
> Pavel
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