From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:25:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:25:51 -0400 Received: from tom.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de ([134.109.132.38]:58035 "EHLO tom.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:25:50 -0400 Message-ID: <3D920EAE.2020602@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 21:29:50 +0200 From: Janek Neubert Reply-To: Janek Neubert User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Kernel Error with i845G Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.3 (/) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *17uHsI-0003ws-00*aqPNb.vDC8M* Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, i have a bought an EPOX board (4G4A+) with Intel i845G chipset. While i was trying a 2.4.18 kernel, the machine stops after "Ok, booting the kernel ...". I have to use the lilo command mem=M in megabytes. All kernels newer than 2.4.3 cause this error. Since version 2.4.19, this solution is unusable. I think, this is a kernel problem, because i know from other people having the same problem, but other boards with i845G. I need the 2.4.19 to use my HPT372. Please help and finf the error. I think the problem is a failure in the routine getting the size of memory from BIOS. Linux thinks, i have 640k!!! RAM. Only the mem-parameter can solve it. Thx janek p.s. please send a cc to my email, i haven't subscribed this list