[ale] Kernel halts with over 500megs of RAM

[jimpop at rocketship.com (Jim Popovitch)]

Hi Joe,

Try the append="mem=... but with a lower number.  For instance, I once had a
box that refused to accept mem=128, but mem=126 worked like a charm.

-Jim P.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: joestory at bellsouth.net [mailto:joestory at bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 10:25 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Kernel halts with over 500megs of RAM
>
>
> Running slackware 8 with kernel 2.4.5.
> Tyan Thunder 2 ATX board. Running Dual 333mhz Proc's.
>
> Everything boots fine with two sticks of 256mb edo RAM, DIMMS.
> Anything more and it gives me a message dealing with interrupts
> and a problem with sched.c at line 709.  I would love to have
> this working.  1GIG! of RAM wooo hooo.  I know the RAM is good,
> 98se can see every bit of it.  I will try updating my kernel
> sources and recompiling after sending this e-mail.  I have also
> tried the append="mem=  " option in lilo.conf.  If you have any
> suggestions, please send'em.
>
> Thanks
>
> Joe
>
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