From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 11:40:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 11:40:45 -0400 Received: from tom.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de ([134.109.132.38]:56788 "EHLO tom.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 11:40:43 -0400 Message-ID: <3D95CE60.30504@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 17:44:32 +0200 From: 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: Re: Kernel Error with i845G References: <3D920EAE.2020602@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *17vJnB-0002o2-00*Oe4PJSBYZac* Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Janek Neubert schrieb: > 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= graphic ram>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. I have some more informations for you: dmesg - output with mem=248M Linux version 2.4.18 (root@server) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #7 SMP Fre Sep 27 23:01:22 CEST 2002 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000000a0000 - 000000000f7f0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 000000000f7f0000 - 000000000f7f3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000000f7f3000 - 000000000f800000 (ACPI data) found SMP MP-table at 000f5b00 hm, page 000f5000 reserved twice. hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice. hm, page 000f0000 reserved twice. hm, page 000f1000 reserved twice. On node 0 totalpages: 63488 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 59392 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4 Virtual Wire compatibility mode. OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at: 0xFEE00000 Processor #0 Unknown CPU [15:1] APIC version 17 I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000. Processors: 1 ... Someone told me to post the output from the serial port. Sorry, i have used minicom, cat and a null modem cabel, but there's no output. When I use 256MB RAM, all works fine with mem=248M, if i use 512MB RAM and mem=504M, the maschine crashs after a full memory use like compiling a kernel. Thx janek p.s. please send a cc to my email, i haven't subscribed this list -- |Student of Computer Science, Chemnitz University of Technology |Reichenhainer Str. 37/395, 09126 Chemnitz |Telephon: (0177)2530625 URL: http://janek.eocom.de