Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-48,: Re: Problem with 1G RAM

# Re: Problem with 1G RAM

Bob McElrath (mcelrath@draal.physics.wisc.edu)
Thu, 3 Dec 1998 16:14:21 -0600 (EST)

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On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> It should work fine as long as you have carefully studied the kernel header
> asm-i386/page.h and made the modifications to it and arch/i386/vmlinux.lds
> accordingly.
>
> By default the kernel will not work with that much memory.

Will the kernel work with that much memory on the alpha platform or sparc64?

> So, either remove a bit of memory or modify the kernel.
>
> Regards,
> Tigran
>
> On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Lei Zhang wrote:
>
> > We have a new machine: ASUS P2B-D, Dual PII 450MHz, 1G RAM, 10G EIDE.
> >
> > but i couldn't get any kernel to work with the 1G RAM (i used
> > append="mem=1024M" )
> >
> > 2.0.34 gives:
> > Bad pmd in pte_alloc: 000000e7
> > Kernel Panic: Failed to allocate buffer hash table
> > In Swapper task - not syncing
> >
> > 2.1.130 will just stop after "Uncompressing kernel... ok"
> >
> > right now, it's running fine with 2.1.130 and append="mem=768M"
> >
> > How do i get the 1G RAM working?
> >
> > any thoughts is appreciated! i am not on the list, so pls reply cc the reply
> > to me. thanks!

-- Bob

Bob McElrath (mcelrath@draal.physics.wisc.edu) Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison

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