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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] gpf 0000 in linux
  • Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 02:36:24 +0000 (UTC)

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, David Moberg wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

Linux boots and I am online with it.

These Compaq computers are screwy.

What puzzles me is why Windows worked but linux did not.

Linux doesn't like imperfect memory. Other kernels will
carry on as if nothing happened, but Linux will panic if
it can't use all of your memory cleanly. There is a patch
which lets you use odd memory modules with Linux.

So that is why it panicked just after checking memory and finding 252MB of the 256 it expected. Do you happen to know why when the BIOS was set to use 4MB for video RAM it had 252MB left, but when it was set to use 2MB it had 256MB left? Some bug in the BIOS? It was also set not to even use the onboard video but to use the PCI card we added.

And why did ramdisk linux work - because the video RAM came from near the end and BL2 ramdisk uses the first 12MB?

> David
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