Re: [gentoo-user] No kernel boot after inserting more ram

[José Pedro Saraiva]

Following your replies I've done the following, in an attempt to isolate the
problem:
(memory #1 - "old" memory, memory #2 - new memory)

- Runned memtest on both memories with 0 errors
- Booted with both memories... kernel hang
- Booted with memory #1 on slot #1 successfully
- Booted with memory #1 on slot #2 successfully
- Booted with memory #2 on slot #1 successfully
- Booted with memory #2 on slot #2 successfully
- Booted with both memories on windows successfully

For some reason, my kernel hangs if I have 2 GB of RAM installed.
And I do have High memory support (4GB), although that doesn't seem
relevant.
Ideas? :X

Thank you all for the quick replies.
Cheers

On Jan 19, 2008 2:29 PM, Hal Martin <hal.martin@×××××.com> wrote:

> An alternative to running memtest (which is quite easy to do, I might
> add) would be to remove the original RAM and see if the computer boots
> with the new RAM only.
>
> Alternatively, you could just run memtest, as it is included with many
> BIOSs now. It doesn't take long to identify problems, if there are any.
> I find that test #5 is the best test for finding problems, however it
> tends to keep you in the dark until it's finished the test.
>
>
> -Hal
>
>
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:58:59 +0000, José Pedro Saraiva wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I'm sure there's nothing wrong with the RAM,
> >>
> >
> > How? Have you run memtest?
> >
> >
> >
>
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