Rescue disk crashes with mem=128M or mem=32M or mem=64M
Hi,
The April 11th boot disk crashes when I enter the kernel command line
option "mem=128M" (I also tried mem=32M and mem=64M -- all crashed in the
same way (see below)).
This system has 128M of RAM, but the BIOS only reports 16M to Linux.
When I try to correction this on the boot disk command-line, I get the
following crash:
linux mem=128M (manually entered at boot disk prompt)
Loading root.bin...........
Loading Linux....... (I didn't record number of dots here or above)
Decompressing Linux... (exactly 3 dots)
crc error
-- System halted
Using the March boot disks this procedure works (boy am I glad I kept a
copy of those March boot disks!!!).
And using lilo (with the same kernel as is on the boot disk), the mem=128M
line works (I even built a kernel and ran lots of memtests to verify that
the memory works fine. It does.)
Conclusion: the April boot disks are broken wrt the mem kernel command line
option.
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