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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Computer would boot to ramdisk BL2 but not ext2.  There was a major 
difference in the boot batch files.  ext2 mem=256MB

The gpf occurred right after the line that said memory 256MB when booting 
to ext2.  We had reduced it to 128MB and it was looking for more.

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, sindi keesan wrote:

> > > I can boot into ramdisk BL2 and chroot to ext2 BL2 and insmod rtl8139 but
> > > this is not a convenient way to boot.
> >
> > You could modify /etc/rc in ramdisk BL2 to do the chrooting for you.
>
> > Where does the GPF occur? Are you booting ramdisk and hdd with the
> > same kernel?

Thanks for asking.

> Uncompressing linux.
.....
Memory.........

> General protection fault : 0000
> cpu: 0

Sindi