Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:24:11 -0500 | From | Greg Norris <> | Subject | Re: memory problem with 2.4.21 SMP on Dell Dimension 8300 (i875p chipset) |
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I still haven't figured this one out, but for whatever it's worth 2.5.72 doesn't appear to trigger the problem. Guess I won't worry about it too much. ;-)
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:10:59PM -0500, Greg Norris wrote: > After running a SMP 2.4.21 kernel on my Dell Dimension 8300, the BIOS > thinks that the amount of memory has changed. When the box is > rebooted, I get the following message at the end of BIOS > initialization: > > The amount of system memory has changed. > Alert! OS Install Mode enabled. Amount of available memory limited to 256MB. > > At this point the bootup hangs, waiting for someone to press F1 > (resume) or F2 (setup). Any idea what's triggering this behaviour, and > what I can do to squash it? This issue doesn't occur when using a UP > kernel (basically identical, except for SMP/ACPI being disabled). > > Thanx! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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