Re: Ram upgrade causes kernel panic

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 08/19/08 03:26, Alexander Fortin wrote:
> Hi guys.
>
> I've just installed Lenny (beta2 network installer) on an Pentium4
> machine and it works great. A few days after, just because everyone
> here is in vacation, I thought it was not so bad to cannibalize a DDR2
> bank from one desktop here in the office and upgrade my shiny new
> box :D
>
> Well, as soon as I reboot with 2 banks of 1GB instead of the original
> 1GB+512MB setup, the kernel panics because of an VFS error (could not
> find root fs).
>
> I tryied any combination with 3 different banks of 1GB but I get the
> same problem; it works only with every possible combination < 2GB, but
> not with 2 banks of 1GB each.... So far I've tested every ram bank
> with memtest but no errors found.
>
> Any idea of why is this happening? Do I really have to reinstall the
> whole system to upgrade ram size?

Since this is a P4, it must be a relatively old mobo.  Maybe it just 
isn't designed to handle 2GB?

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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