Re: Installation fails after "done, booting the kernel."

To: Thomas Herrmann <THerrmann@ADwin.de>
Cc: debian-arm@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Installation fails after "done, booting the kernel."
From: Luis Henriques <luis.henrix@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 13:26:32 +0100
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In-reply-to: <ca6640eb-3b4e-421b-b779-fb37d1ac8f64@gv8g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> (Thomas Herrmann's message of "Tue, 31 May 2011 04:56:51 -0700 (PDT)")
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Thomas Herrmann <THerrmann@ADwin.de> writes:
>
> AFAIK the dockstar has only 128MB of RAM, so if the kernel wants to
> use 512MB it will crash. I am just wondering how the linux kernel
> determines the amount of RAM; I did set arcNumber=2998 and
> mainlineLinux=yes properly. How does the kernel know the value of
> "arcNumber"? Does it read it from the uboot config from flash?

Have you tried adding mem=128M to the boot parameters in uboot?

--
Luis Henriques

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