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Bug#570268: sky2 fails when memory exceeds 2GB on amd64 kernel



On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 12:51 -0600, Dale Schroeder wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64
> Version: 2.6.32-5 
> 
> Package: linux-image-2.6.30-2-amd64
> Version: 2.6.30-8squeeze1
> 
> No matter what brand, size, or speed of ddr2 RAM I try, I cannot
> successfully boot when the installed memory is greater than 2GB.
> The system is an Acer Aspire M1100 with the most recent BIOS.  I have
> tried with kernels 2.6.32-5 and 2.6.30-8squeeze1.
> 
> During the boot sequence, sky2 fails with a 0x2010 pci error; then
> several programs slowly load until dmsg appears, at which time the
> screen fills with hexadecimal errors similar to those in this debian
> bug thread:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=457967
[...]

Please send a copy of this messages, which will be in /var/log/dmesg
once the system has booted.

Ben.


-- 
Ben Hutchings
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