Re: BUG REPORT w/ ksymoops output

Manfred Spraul (manfreds@colorfullife.com)
Fri, 24 Dec 1999 10:44:53 +0100


James Thoenen wrote:
>
> The only
> difference I'm aware of in the system when booted from dos is that the
> kernel is aware of only 64 MB of the 128 MB in my system. I tend to
> disbelieve that my hardware is at fault since the bios's slow memory
> check reports no errors.
>
Could you try a better memory tester than the bios?
My bios successfully tested [slow memory check] 160 MB memory, although
I had only 128 MB installed...

> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 10000000
^^^^^^^^
> current->tss.cr3 = 06a54000, %cr3 = 06a54000

This looks like a memory problem: find_buffer() accesses lots of memory,
and the value 10000000 is just one bit of the valid value 00000000.

--
	Manfred

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