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On Friday 18 January 2008, José Pedro Saraiva wrote: |
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> Hi all, wise gentoo users! |
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> I've recently bought an extra GB of RAM for my laptop. After inserting it, |
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> kernel refuses to boot, it hangs at "Booting the kernel" |
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> I'm sure there's nothing wrong with the RAM, so it must be some other |
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> issue, perhaps related with my boot options? |
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Well, if you haven't changed anything else other than the RAM module since the |
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last time you booted the machine, then the problem would not be with your |
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Grub configuration . . . If you have, then revert the change. |
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> Any help or ideas are welcome :) |
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Boot a LiveCD and run memtest86. Sometimes even new memory modules are duff. |
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> Here's an extract of my grub.conf: |
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> title Gentoo 2.6.22-r8 |
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> root (hd0,1) |
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> kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r8 root=/dev/sda5 |
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> splash=verbose,fadein,theme:emergence fbcon=scrollback:128K |
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> console=/dev/tty1 combined_mode=libata |
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> initrd /boot/fbsplash-emergence-1024x768 |
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HTH. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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