Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:46:00 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: "My" crash when reading partition table |
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Hi!
> You will notice that the second region is 128k short of a full 63meg. (63 + > 1 = 64). When you set the command line to 64M, the system tries to use some > memory that the bios is not making available as regular memory. Crash is > inevitable. This is why I have been unhappy with advice on the list to > "Just set mem= to however much memory you have."
I did mem=63M, not mem=64M. I can retry with mem=61M (but I think it crashed, too.)
> If you like, you could try mem=65408K. (64M - 128k) Another option would > be to turn ACPI off & see how it goes. > > That NVS reserved memory is interesting. (That's the type 4 region at the > end.) Since Linux does not currently recognize NVS memory (and if it did, I > don't know how it would address that range), any operation looking like an > ACPI sleep is likely too be a bad thing...
What is NVS? Non-volatile-storage? Pavel -- The best software in life is free (not shareware)! Pavel GCM d? s-: !g p?:+ au- a--@ w+ v- C++@ UL+++ L++ N++ E++ W--- M- Y- R+
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