Re: kernel crashes with 2.5/2.8

[John Newman <cachehit@gmail.com>]

Ok, I got some time this evening to run memtest86.  With the 2650
configured with 2 1GB sticks memtest86 started reprting errors almost
immediately.  "Terrfic!" I thought, "this is my problem!"  The address
seemed suspicious though:  0007ffedc80 (2047.8MB) is where all the
errors were reported.  I decided to let it run all the way through but
it froze at 34% of the first test.  Memtest86 also said it did not
support this chipset when I tried to dink with advanced options.

So, I replaced the ram with 4 512MB sticks I had laying around from a
different Dell machine.  I booted memtest86 again and what do you
know.... errors @ 0007ffedc80, with completely different RAM.  So
obviously these results are fishy.

Someone replied to me off-list and said the only way they could get
their Dell 2650 stable was by running 2.4.28.

--
john


On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:16:17 -0800, Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> wrote:
> * John Newman (cachehit@gmail.com) wrote:
> > Nov 24 21:34:10 ptscorp-nis01 kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging
> > request at virtual address 01000004
> 
> Possible bad memory.  This could be 4 byte offset of NULL with one bit
> flipped.  Have you run memtest86?
> 
> Also, it'd be useful to keep tabs on the Oopsen.  Are they totally
> random, same location, etc.
> 
> thanks,
> -chris
> 


-- 
John