I don't remember the exact details, but we determined that the 2.0.x
kernel was trashing some data structure during initialization if there
was too much memory. It seems to work correctly with mem=960M; we
actually patched our kernels to use that as an upper bound on the
amount of memory to use, regardless of what the BIOS or user say about
how much memory is available.
-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
Systems Programmer
School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/