Re: lilo in i386 - fail for 64bit ?
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 04:22:37PM -0700, Alex Perry wrote:
> Somehow I managed to have "mem=nopentium" appended to all my kernels,
> not just the pure32 ones. This mistake had not been committed through
> lilo so, when the lilo upgrade was installed, the kernel parameters were
> modified. This append has the documented effect (and is needed for
> Athlon processors) in pure32. In pure64 and 32/64 kernels it seems to
> be interpreted as a request for a memory size of zero, which fails.
Why is mem=nopentium needed on k7 systems?
I know it was needed 1-2 years ago with Thunderbird and Palomino cpus and
nvidia drivers, because those CPUs had a bug in 4M memory page handling and
froze the system every now and then, but this is fixed in Thoroughbred
K7 cpus and recent kernels (don't remember, starting from something between
2.4.15 and 2.4.20) have a workaround for this.
Greetings
Frederik Schueler
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