Re: grub failure with mem > 8gb
[ Tuesday 10 August 2004 10:59 ]
| "Christophe Prud'homme" <prudhomm@debian.org> írta 2004-08-10 10:48-kor:
| > [ Tuesday 10 August 2004 10:28 ]
| > | If I give an uppermem 1000000 option before kernel and initrd commands,
| > | than it worked, booted, etc. And the freei / usable mem was ~ 8G in the
| > | running linux.
| > I can confirm that but only with non-SMP kernel
| > with smp kernel I get a kernel panic with the same setting as above
| Not exactly!
| The tested vmlinuz and initrd image are parts of the
| kernel-image-2.6.7-5-amd64-k8-smp debian package.
| So, I assume (from the package name;) ) that it is an smp kernel too.
well in fact in one case I put the uppermem before the root line (->kernel panic)
and the second case after and it worked for all flavors presented by grub
now it could be that all flavors are smp :)
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