From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.38.3 and 2.6.39-rc4 hangs after "Booting the kernel" on quad Pentium Pro system
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:35:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110423103536.1c7ff2a8@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201104231016.23579.chris@csamuel.org>
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:16:18 +1000
Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org> wrote:
> Syt mae Alan! ;-)
G'day ;)
> Ahh, that's a new one on me, and it reveals that the kernel
> has gone from 2.6.18 detecting:
>
> 256MB LOWMEM available.
>
> to 2.6.39-rc4 detecting:
>
> 16MB LOWMEM available.
>
> That would explain an awful lot..
Could be something has disturbed its memory detect or could be a bug in
the PPro memory quirk.
If you boot with mem= and force the memory size what happens ?
> INT 15h = f000:f859 DOS RAM: 638K (0x9f800) INT 12h: 638K (0x9f800)
> INT 15 88: 0x3c00 (15360K) INT 15 E801: 0x0000 (0K) 0x0000 (0K)
Ah.. do you have a BIOS setting called something like OS/2 compatibility ?
> Hope life is still good in Abertawe!
This part of the world has changed rather a lot. Not sure you'd recognize
half of it.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-23 9:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-22 13:33 Chris Samuel
2011-04-22 13:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-04-22 19:09 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-04-22 19:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-04-22 19:46 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-04-23 0:20 ` Chris Samuel
2011-04-22 16:34 ` Alan Cox
2011-04-23 0:16 ` Chris Samuel
2011-04-23 1:28 ` Yuhong Bao
2011-04-23 1:35 ` Chris Samuel
2011-04-23 1:46 ` Yuhong Bao
2011-04-23 2:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-23 2:31 ` Yuhong Bao
2011-04-23 4:33 ` Chris Samuel
2011-04-23 5:22 ` Chris Samuel
[not found] ` <SNT125-W25B0C502FF72465BC6B55BC3940@phx.gbl>
[not found] ` <201104231855.47680.chris@csamuel.org>
2011-04-23 10:47 ` FW: " Yuhong Bao
2011-04-23 13:52 ` Thomas Meyer
2011-04-23 17:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-23 23:24 ` Chris Samuel
2011-04-24 0:16 ` Chris Samuel
2011-04-24 0:22 ` Chris Samuel
2011-04-24 8:46 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-04-25 11:13 ` Chris Samuel
2011-04-25 23:25 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, setup: When probing memory with e801, use ax/bx as a pair tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-26 4:50 ` Chris Samuel
2011-04-26 8:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-04-27 3:30 ` Chris Samuel
2011-05-05 11:57 ` Chris Samuel
2011-05-05 12:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-06 11:47 ` Chris Samuel
2011-05-06 12:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-06 12:10 ` Chris Samuel
2011-05-30 4:54 ` Yuhong Bao
2011-04-23 2:03 ` 2.6.38.3 and 2.6.39-rc4 hangs after "Booting the kernel" on quad Pentium Pro system H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-23 6:43 ` Chris Samuel
[not found] ` <1ac2dd46-0677-4be6-aca0-f8787da34cee@email.android.com>
2011-04-23 1:36 ` Chris Samuel
2011-04-23 9:35 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2011-04-23 10:35 ` Chris Samuel
2011-04-23 11:32 ` Chris Samuel
2011-04-23 13:11 ` Chris Samuel
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