Re: Cannot boot any HIGHMEM kernel (kernel panic - not syncing)

2008-05-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-05-01 16:32:52, schrieb Michael Elsdörfer: > Does anybody know what the issue might be? END OF REPLIED MESSAGE There are some cases where you have to enable PAE! Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator

Re: Cannot boot any HIGHMEM kernel (kernel panic - not syncing)

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Allums
Michael Elsdörfer wrote: Have you used Linux on this machine before now? If not, the problem may be a hardware issue. You may have a broken BIOS which doesn't allow the kernel to do something it thinks it sould be able to do. Try booting with the kernel parameters acpi=off or noapic. Thanks f

Re: Cannot boot any HIGHMEM kernel (kernel panic - not syncing)

2008-05-02 Thread Michael Elsdörfer
> Have you used Linux on this machine before now? If not, the problem may be > a hardware issue. You may have a broken BIOS which doesn't allow the kernel > to do something it thinks it sould be able to do. Try booting with the > kernel parameters acpi=off or noapic. Thanks for responding Mark.

Re: Cannot boot any HIGHMEM kernel (kernel panic - not syncing)

2008-05-01 Thread Mark Allums
Michael Elsdörfer wrote: This is an etch server machine with 3GB of RAM, and I seem unable to boot into any kernel that has HIGHMEM enabled, i.e.: zoidberg:/# dmesg | head Warning only 896MB will be used. Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel. 896MB LOWMEM available. Specifically, the only kernel image

Cannot boot any HIGHMEM kernel (kernel panic - not syncing)

2008-05-01 Thread Michael Elsdörfer
This is an etch server machine with 3GB of RAM, and I seem unable to boot into any kernel that has HIGHMEM enabled, i.e.: zoidberg:/# dmesg | head Warning only 896MB will be used. Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel. 896MB LOWMEM available. Specifically, the only kernel image that seems to work is linux