Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.3.4[67] does not boot with PAE36 | From | Christoph Rohland <> | Date | 12 Jan 2000 04:26:53 +0100 |
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Hi Ingo,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu> writes:
> > This time it hangs for a while after 'loading test......' and then > > automagically reboots. > > one bug is fixed by the attached patch, but then we spontaneously reboot > later at SMP init time (we somewhere get confused around head.S in when > booting secondary CPUs). Anyway, without SMP PAE should already work with > the attached patch. Looking for the other bug now. > > (the bug was that we allocated and initialized secondary PAE page tables > outside the 8MB initial virtual memory - bootmem_alloc_pages() prefers to > return addresses above 16MB on x86.)
This fixes my boot problems.
Greetings Christoph
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