On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 10:53, Alan Cox wrote:
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:42:14AM -0400, Ed Hill wrote:
I guess it was just a coincidence that some of the kernels worked with mem=12G and others didn't. I've moved the machine to a new location and now *none* of the kernels I have (neither mine nor the Fedora ones) will boot with "mem=12G". The best I can get to work is "mem=3950M".
If you don't specify mem= does it find all your RAM. ALso what chipset ?
Hi folks,
Since the K8D_Master-F MB would no longer POST, we swapped in a Tyan 2885 with the below HW. The good news is that we're not having any memory recognition problems. The bad news is that we now have an annoying but otherwise harmless boot situation which is:
- the initial boot always fails very early in the boot process
and causes a system reset
- a warm reboot commences
- this second attempt (and any further warm reboots) work just fine
- any complete power-down will cause the first boot attempt to fail
Sounds like crap hardware. I heard of something like that before.. it was 'fixed' with a 'BIOS' update..
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