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Re: I killed my Debian on Alpha :( 2.4 blues



On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 09:45:51AM +1000, Matthew Tippett wrote:
> 
> I had similar problems, it loads the initrd, looks okay, displays an
> Oops, and then complains it can't mount the root filesystem.  One change
> I did have to make was that the default ramdisk size larger than the 
> default of 4096 (the initrd is 4133k).

Damn, I thought I fixed that.  The next release will have 8192 as
the default.  In the meantime, ramdisk_size=8192 should do the trick.

> On a similar note, the 2.2.20 SMP kernel can only find one CPU on our
> ES40.  We believe (according to the paperwork), that the are two CPUs,

Is 2.4 any better?

> but the SMP kernel only finds one.  And a final question - We have 4 GB
> of RAM, what is the best way for us to get Linux (2.2 or 2.4) to detect
> and run with it?

You need to recompile 2.4 with HIMEM support turned on.  2.2 won't work
at all.
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