Re: Boot hangs with 16M ram

["Brian C. White" <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

> My debian box doesn't seem to be able to boot with
> 16 megs ram!!
> 
> Dos and windows works fine, but Linux just hangs after
> it does partition check. I boot with lilo, using both
> kernels 2.0.17 & 18. The basic Debian boot disks crash
> when mounting the ramdisk, dumping register values and
> informing me of a protection fault. Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You probably have a hardware problem with the memory.  I recently tried
to add an extra 16MB to my system.  It was EDO ram and worked fine under
dos/windows, but not Linux.  Linux places much higher stress on the
memory subsystem.
                                             
                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )
                                             
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