On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 22:58 +0000, José Pedro Saraiva wrote: > Hi all, wise gentoo users! > I've recently bought an extra GB of RAM for my laptop. After inserting > it, kernel refuses to boot, it hangs at "Booting the kernel" > I'm sure there's nothing wrong with the RAM, so it must be some other > issue, perhaps related with my boot options? > Any help or ideas are welcome :)
I don't know if you've tried this one already but another idea would be to enter the system setup (BIOS) and just save the changes, then reboot. You used to have to do this after any physical changes with RAM, though I haven't seen it in years. Just something else to try. > Here's an extract of my grub.conf: > > title Gentoo 2.6.22-r8 > root (hd0,1) > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r8 root=/dev/sda5 > splash=verbose,fadein,theme:emergence fbcon=scrollback:128K > console=/dev/tty1 combined_mode=libata > initrd /boot/fbsplash-emergence-1024x768 > > > > > Best regards, > José Pedro -- Statux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
