Re: P4 with i845E not booting with 2.4.19 / 3.5.31

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 08:05, Jens Wiesecke wrote:
> so the problem seems to be BIOS related. But what I don't understand is 
> that since I tell the kernel to use 512 MByte of RAM (mem=512M) and 
> kernels up to 2.4.19pre6 can handle this:
> 
> What changed and is there a workaround for kernels newer than 2.4.19pre6 
> (for example telling the kernel not to rely on the memory information of 
> the BIOS e820 procedure) ?
> 
> I tried to compile 2.4.20pre5-(ac) with the arch/i386/kernel/setup.c 
> from 2.4.19pre6 but that didn't work.

I don't know. Without a serial console oops dump I don't have time to
figure it out either