From: "Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org>
To: Ronald Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 13:01:54 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107041259490.252-100000@desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <994279551.1116.0.camel@tux>
On 4 Jul 2001, Ronald Bultje wrote:
> Hi,
>
> you might remember an e-mail from me (two weeks ago) with my problems
> where linux would not boot up or be highly instable on a machine with
> 256 MB RAM, while it was 100% stable with 128 MB RAM. Basically, I still
> have this problem, so I am running with 128 MB RAM again.
I suggest you look into the memory settings in your BIOS, and change them
to the most conservative available. Or, throw out your memory and buy
some from a reputable manufacturer. Your problem is definitely hardware.
There are racks full of linux machines with more than 128 MB RAM running
kernel 2.4 all over the world. I personally installed a dozen. It always
works fine.
-jwb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-04 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-04 20:45 Ronald Bultje
2001-07-04 19:11 ` J Sloan
2001-07-04 19:20 ` Charles Cazabon
2001-07-04 19:29 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-04 19:47 ` William Scott Lockwood III
2001-07-05 3:16 ` Bill Pringlemeir
2001-07-05 6:37 ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2001-07-05 15:38 ` Bill Pringlemeir
2001-07-04 19:44 ` mark
2001-07-04 20:01 ` Jeffrey W. Baker [this message]
2001-07-04 20:05 ` George Bonser
2001-07-04 22:11 ` D. Stimits
2001-07-04 23:47 ` Peter Bornemann
2001-07-05 1:22 ` Reza Roboubi
2001-07-05 1:43 ` Charles Cazabon
2001-07-05 1:58 ` George Bonser
2001-07-05 15:51 ` Don Krause
2001-07-05 17:22 ` Gary White (Network Administrator)
2001-07-05 20:45 ` Peter A. Castro
2001-07-06 17:55 ` Ronald Bultje
2001-07-09 14:24 ` Andreas Bombe
[not found] <01Jul4.172916edt.62972@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca>
2001-07-05 8:44 ` Ronald Bultje
2001-07-04 20:57 ` Chris Bacott
2001-07-05 7:22 ` StarTux
2001-07-05 8:40 ` Reza Roboubi
2001-07-05 9:15 ` D. Stimits
2001-07-05 10:50 ` Ronald Bultje
2001-07-05 15:41 ` Reza Roboubi
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-04 20:06 Alessandro Motter Ren
2001-07-04 20:16 ` George Bonser
2001-07-04 20:52 ` Ronald Bultje
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