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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Sergei Haller <Sergei.Haller@math.uni-giessen.de>, g@muc.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lost memory on a 4GB amd64
Date: 16 Sep 2004 14:34:17 +0200
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:34:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040916123417.GA68423@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0409162209450.26494@fb07-calculator.math.uni-giessen.de>

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:15:22PM +1000, Sergei Haller wrote:
> I am sure you did read the rest of my mail, didn't you? I mean the part 

I did.

> where I describe that there is an option in the BIOS for that but the 
> kernel crashes if I enable it.

It means the memory was not correct configured. If you don't trust the kernel
you can use memtest86 to confirm it.

> If it is still a problem of the BIOS, could you please be more specific 
> about what exactly is the problem with the BIOS?

That it doesn't supply usable memory to the kernel with that option.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-16 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <2EWxl-7CI-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-09-16  7:01 ` lost memory on a 4GB amd64 Andi Kleen
2004-09-16 12:15   ` Sergei Haller
2004-09-16 12:34     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-09-18 14:07       ` Sergei Haller
2004-09-16  4:48 Sergei Haller
2004-09-16 13:30 ` Andrew Walrond
2004-09-16 13:48 ` Andrew Walrond
2004-09-16 14:09   ` Sergei Haller
2004-09-16 14:28     ` Andrew Walrond
2004-09-16 14:56       ` Sergei Haller
2004-09-16 15:19         ` Andrew Walrond
2004-09-16 15:52           ` Sergei Haller
2004-09-18 14:18             ` Sergei Haller
2004-09-19 20:01               ` Jon Masters
2004-09-19 21:47                 ` Sergei Haller
2004-09-19 22:00                   ` Jon Masters
2004-09-19 22:19                     ` Sergei Haller
2004-09-20 10:26                       ` Sergei Haller
2004-09-24  4:38                         ` Sergei Haller
2004-09-24  8:15                         ` Andrew Walrond
2004-09-24  8:23                           ` Sergei Haller
2004-09-24  8:31                             ` Andrew Walrond
2004-09-24  8:57                               ` Sergei Haller
2004-09-24  9:27                                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-09-24  9:41                                   ` Andrew Walrond
2004-09-24 11:42                                     ` Sergei Haller
2004-09-24 12:15                                       ` Andrew Walrond
2004-10-22  8:59                                         ` Sergei Haller
2004-10-22  9:26                                           ` Andrew Walrond
2004-10-22 18:24                                             ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-23 10:02                                               ` Andreas Klein
2004-10-23 16:43                                                 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-26 11:25                                                   ` Andreas Klein
2004-10-23 10:26                                               ` Sergei Haller
2004-10-23 16:49                                                 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-24  9:53                                                   ` Sergei Haller
2004-09-24 11:50                                   ` Sergei Haller

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