On Monday 09 April 2001 15:18, you wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a problem with adding RAM that I hope someone can help me with.
>
> We have a Compaq SP750 (dual P3 866 Xeon) that had 1.5GB of RDRAM.
> When we added another 512MB to bring the total up to 2GB, the LM7.1
> installed on the machine refuse to boot. It gets to the place where
> it's suppose to load the RAM disk (I think) but go into kernel panic:
> unable to mount root. We tried just putting in 1792MB of RAM, then the
> machine boots up w/o any problems. Anyone has any idea why?
Just guessing here, but the maximum amount of memory is a kernel config
option. Perhaps the kernel on the installation cd is set to something les
than 2G?
--
Alex
Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command
