> My debian box doesn't seem to be able to boot with > 16 megs ram!! > > Dos and windows works fine, but Linux just hangs after > it does partition check. I boot with lilo, using both > kernels 2.0.17 & 18. The basic Debian boot disks crash > when mounting the ramdisk, dumping register values and > informing me of a protection fault. Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You probably have a hardware problem with the memory. I recently tried to add an extra 16MB to my system. It was EDO ram and worked fine under dos/windows, but not Linux. Linux places much higher stress on the memory subsystem. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.