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On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 22:58 +0000, 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 |
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> it, 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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> Any help or ideas are welcome :) |
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I don't know if you've tried this one already but another idea would be |
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to enter the system setup (BIOS) and just save the changes, then reboot. |
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You used to have to do this after any physical changes with RAM, though |
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I haven't seen it in years. |
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Just something else to try. |
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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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> Best regards, |
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> José Pedro |
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Statux <statux@×××××××××.net> |
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