Re: 2.0.29 stuck in loop in grow_buffers

Agus Budy Wuysang (fswmis@rad.net.id)
Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:25:30 +0700

Zach wrote:
>
> i have 3 ppro166 with 132megs ecc, 2 on board aic7880s..
>
> when running it with 64meg (the most, it seems, the bios will report) all
> is well. when i add mem=132M to the kernel args, it hangs just after

Hmmm, this is more likely to be "2^20 vs 10^6" related disease :)

Are you sure the total memory is 132mb? Or did
you divided MS-DOZE report (132xxxyyy bytes) by 1000 and
get 132M.

Typical SIMM motherboard layout is as follows:

Bank 0 Bank 1
64M x 2 + 2M x 2 = 132M
32M x 4 + 1M x 4 = 132M

64M x 2 = 128M
32M x 4 = 128M

Re-check your DIMM/SIMM configuration, and put the correct mem=xxxM.

>
> Partition check:
> sda: sda1 sda2
> sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3
>
> alt-scrolllock still works, and points to the problem (symptom?..)
>
> (this is all hand recorded..)
>
> eip: 0010:[<0012b307>] flags=206 ds/es/gs=18 fs=2b
> eax/edx = -1 (ffffffff) ebx=1 ecx=83effac esi=83eefac edi=83f0000
> ebp = 1ada4
> 

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