Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7 - Ram is read incorrectly - Kernel Panic

[Rial Juan]

There are some pitfalls with SMP kernels. I suggest if you're new to this, that
you read the SMP-Howto, and the Kernel-Howto. All HOWTO's are accessible online
trough http://www.linuxdoc.org and many other sites.

I have a similar setup, except for the network card which is a D-Link DFE528TX O
believe (number might be wrong; I'm falling back on my memory here), and the
fact I have only 128 MB of RAM, and a 13GB harddisk; UDMA/66 connected to the
UDMA/33 bus. Redhat wouldn't find it on the UDMA/66 bus and I found out too
late Mandrake does, but don't feel like opening the stuff up again to reconnect 
it..

I have no problems whatsoever, except for some stability issues which appear to
be solved since I swapped the SB Live and the D-link from pci-slot, and some
weird kernel messages (very sporadic) about "illegal interrupt vector on CPU0"
or something like that. But the default SMP kernel worked perfectly, although
I'm running a recompiled stock 2.2.14 SMP kernel now.

Perhaps you have selected the wrong module for your ethernet card? Boot the
standard UP-kernel (I believe it's installed also), and with "lsmod" see which
modules are loaded. Then make sure those are selected when you build a new
kernel.


On Mar 22 David J. Siu wrote:

> I have two slight problems, maybe other people are getting the same problem
> or know of a way around it? 
> 
> o When I first install Mandrake 7, one of the screens says that it only
> sees 64 megs of ram, but I have 192. My bios confirms this and so does
> windows, and previous distributions on mandrake. I've tried recompiling the
> kernel and that did not seem to work. I've also tried specifying the exact
> amount of ram during the installation and that did not help. Any ideas?
> 
> o The other problem that I have is that when I use the default SMP kernel,
> I always get a kernel panic when it tries to mount the proc file system.
> This did not happen in the previous distributions. When I compile my own
> kernel, it seems to not have this prob, but then the networking stuff
> breaks but thats just probably a configuration problem... question is, Is
> any one having this problem? Does anyone know what is causing this kernel
> panic?
> 
> I have the following configuration:
> 
> o Dual Celeron
> o Abit BP6
> o 192 Megs of RAM
> o Maxtor 10 gig HD
> o Sound blaster Live
> o Creative Labs TNT 2 Ultra
> o Netgear Ehternet Card
> 
> Thanks Everyone! Any help would be appreciated
> 

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Re: [[newbie] Mandrake 7 - Ram is read incorrectly - Kernel Panic]

[Michael Scottaline]

"David J. Siu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have two slight problems, maybe other people are getting the same problem
> or know of a way around it? 
> 
> o When I first install Mandrake 7, one of the screens says that it only
> sees 64 megs of ram, but I have 192. My bios confirms this and so does
> windows, and previous distributions on mandrake. I've tried recompiling the
> kernel and that did not seem to work. I've also tried specifying the exact
> amount of ram during the installation and that did not help. Any ideas?
=
At the boot prompt try typing "linux mem=192M" w/o the quotes.  If the works,
and your system now sees all of your RAM, edit /etc/lilo.conf add
append="mem=192M" (use quotes this time)
That will boot you with all of your RAM recognized.
Not sure about your other problem, sorry...
HTH,
Mike



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[newbie] Mandrake 7 - Ram is read incorrectly - Kernel Panic

[David J. Siu]

I have two slight problems, maybe other people are getting the same problem
or know of a way around it? 

o When I first install Mandrake 7, one of the screens says that it only
sees 64 megs of ram, but I have 192. My bios confirms this and so does
windows, and previous distributions on mandrake. I've tried recompiling the
kernel and that did not seem to work. I've also tried specifying the exact
amount of ram during the installation and that did not help. Any ideas?

o The other problem that I have is that when I use the default SMP kernel,
I always get a kernel panic when it tries to mount the proc file system.
This did not happen in the previous distributions. When I compile my own
kernel, it seems to not have this prob, but then the networking stuff
breaks but thats just probably a configuration problem... question is, Is
any one having this problem? Does anyone know what is causing this kernel
panic?

I have the following configuration:

o Dual Celeron
o Abit BP6
o 192 Megs of RAM
o Maxtor 10 gig HD
o Sound blaster Live
o Creative Labs TNT 2 Ultra
o Netgear Ehternet Card

Thanks Everyone! Any help would be appreciated