Re: 2.1.20: e820 crash data

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Fri, 15 Oct 1999 10:52:25 +0200


Hi!

> 2.1.20 crashes on my 64MB Toshiba 4070CDT immediately after booting.
>
> I don't see much if the framebuffer device is on (blank screen). But if
> it is off, the oops reveals there's a memory allocation problem.
>
> With mem=63M, it boots fine. 2.1.18 was fine without this.
>
> Here is the e820 map printed by the 2.1.20 kernel when it boots successfully:
>
> e820: 654336 @ 00000000 (usable)
> e820: 1024 @ 0009fc00 (reserved)
> e820: 16384 @ 000e8000 (usable)
> e820: 65536 @ 000f0000 (reserved)
> e820: 65929216 @ 00100000 (usable)
> e820: 65536 @ 03fe0000 (ACPI data)
> e820: 65536 @ 03ff0000 (reserved)
> e820: 93696 @ 100a0000 (reserved)
> e820: 512 @ 100b6e00 type 4
> e820: 299008 @ 100b7000 (reserved)
> e820: 524288 @ fff80000 (reserved)

Just: I complained about very same problem, see "my" crash when
reading partition table. We have pretty close hardware.

Pavel

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