Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:01:00 -0800 Received: from deliverator.sgi.com ([204.94.214.10]:31299 "EHLO deliverator.sgi.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:00:44 -0800 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by deliverator.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980310.SGI-aspam) via ESMTP id KAA22137 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:57:41 -0800 (PST) mail_from (tduffy@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com) Received: from mtv-mven006e--n.engr.sgi.com (mtv-mven006e--n.engr.sgi.com [192.48.196.47]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id LAA72990 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:01:49 -0800 (PST) mail_from (tduffy@engr.sgi.com) Received: from engr.sgi.com (sgigate.sgi.com [198.29.75.75]) by mtv-mven006e--n.engr.sgi.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id Y0LALKPX; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:00:00 -0800 Message-ID: <387CCA8E.1D71859E@engr.sgi.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:40:14 -0800 From: Thomas Duffy Reply-To: tduffy@sgi.com Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.10-1SGI_17kdb06 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: boot!]] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sgilinux11@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;sgilinux11-outgoing This was suggested on an internal newsgroup as a possible solution to the 540 Linux boot problem. > I also got the vertical lines when I specified memory larger than what was > available on my first bank of DIMMS. Apparently, we use some strange sort > of memory mapping that confuses Linux. So, the question to the guy should > be if he specified memory size in PROM OSLoadOptions. If so, this is > probably the cause of his trouble. If he removes the part that says > "mem=512M" (or whatever), it will default to using 128 MB. If his first > bank is 256 MB, then he can use that... - tduffy