Re: Bizzare crashes on IBM Thinkpad A22e

From: Adrian Bridgett (adrian.bridgett@iname.com)
Date: Thu Aug 30 2001 - 16:00:09 EST


On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 19:50:41 +0200 (+0000), Erik Mouw wrote:
[snip]
> Could you try to boot with "mem=one MB less than the machine actually
> has" and see if that fixes the problem? So "mem=127M" for a 128MB
> machine. If that fixes the problem, I think there is a bug in the e820
> BIOS memory map and you should ask IBM to fix their BIOS.

You can actually use the number that showd on boot (mem=125435K or
whatever...)

OTOH since I switched to 2.4 I havn't needed that (TP770X).

Adrian

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