Le Saturday 01 March 2008 20:33:05 andy, vous avez écrit : > Jochen Schulz wrote: > > andy: > >> I added mem=2048M to the end of the line so that it now reads: > >> > >> # kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet mem=2048M > >> > >> And ran /usr/sbin/update-grub and rebooted. > >> > >> It still took just under 10 minutes to get back to login at the gdm > >> screen, so I am at a complete loss now. > > > > Try a few megs less, like mem=2040M. > > > > > > J. > > Been there and done that: I reduced the /boot/grub/menu.lst entry to > 2040 and updated and rebooted. Resulted in a drag as always when 2 DDR2 > chips are inserted. Edited menu.lst to 2000M, updated, rebooted and same > delay. BIOS correctly recognised 2040M during the initial boot pre-GRUB > stage on both occasions. I've just pulled the second RAM chip for now. > > Despite spending the better part of the afternoon running searches on > google and reading info grub-doc I have come across nothing that is > remotely useful. My board is set up to take 2GB x DDR2 pc533 RAM. > Assuming that nothing is wrong with the hardware (and really, how does > one check that?), it looks like this may be a kernel issue for the > 2.6.22-3-686. Unfortunately, I cannot find out whether any bugs have > been filed. > > A Perhaps a problem with a dual channel setting or prerequisit... Beware of your bois settings and if you have more than 2 memory slots, be sure to put your two memory banks in the good ones. I suppose that your new memory is at the same speed than your old one ?
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