Re: how to specify kernel parameter "memmap="

2014-01-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 09/01/14 08:39, Long Wind wrote: > On 1/9/14, Robert Holtzman wrote: >> >> How did you get it on the hard drive? >> >> -- >> Bob Holtzman >> Your mail is being read by tight lipped >> NSA agents who fail to see humor in Doctor >> Strangelove >> Key ID 8D549279 >> > > woody was installed many y

Re: how to specify kernel parameter "memmap="

2014-01-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 06:41 -0500, Long Wind wrote: > I have attached a photo of screen in email the photo isn't very clear, > hopefully you can see it No, I can't see it. This seems to be a running gag today: Forwarded Message From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questi...@freebsd.or

Re: how to specify kernel parameter "memmap="

2014-01-09 Thread Long Wind
On 1/8/14, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 07:48 -0500, Long Wind wrote: >> knoppix CD doesn't seem to be able to boot > On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 09:23 +0800, Long Wind wrote: >> I'v try Knoppix, it can't run, I make no progress > > What does it mean? You put the Knoppix CD/DVD into the d

Re: how to specify kernel parameter "memmap="

2014-01-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 07:48 -0500, Long Wind wrote: > knoppix CD doesn't seem to be able to boot On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 09:23 +0800, Long Wind wrote: > I'v try Knoppix, it can't run, I make no progress What does it mean? You put the Knoppix CD/DVD into the drive and then doesn't happen anything? Or

Re: how to specify kernel parameter "memmap="

2014-01-08 Thread Long Wind
today I plug the disk with woody to a P4/1.6G PC it can't boot though it can boot a P4/2.9G PC error msg are mainly about CPU On 1/9/14, Long Wind wrote: > On 1/9/14, Robert Holtzman wrote: >> >> How did you get it on the hard drive? >> >> -- >> Bob Holtzman >> Your mail is being read by tight l

Re: how to specify kernel parameter "memmap="

2014-01-08 Thread Long Wind
On 1/9/14, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > How did you get it on the hard drive? > > -- > Bob Holtzman > Your mail is being read by tight lipped > NSA agents who fail to see humor in Doctor > Strangelove > Key ID 8D549279 > woody was installed many years ago on another PC I remove the disk and plug it

Re: how to specify kernel parameter "memmap="

2014-01-08 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 12:15:58AM -0500, Long Wind wrote: > On 1/8/14, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > He mentioned that the woody installer "boots" OK. > > > > -- > > the woody install CD fails to boot installer, > but woody on a hard disk can boot How did you get it on the hard drive? -- Bob

Re: how to specify kernel parameter "memmap="

2014-01-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 08 January 2014 05:06:22 Chris Bannister wrote: > Is it possible > > > > to run a live distro from CD, for instance? [snip] > > > > No-one has persuaded him to run one.  He says that he tried to > > boot Knoppix 7, but it failed (??).  He may have tried to boot > > the DVD of Knoppix 7

Re: how to specify kernel parameter "memmap="

2014-01-07 Thread Long Wind
I have downloaded and burned Freebsd 9.2 CD during boot, it shows sth like "BIOS 630K/14233K" memory I can't remember the exact number it means it has only 630K memory available so the BSD kernel fails to boot linux probably face the same problem On 1/8/14, Long Wind wrote: > On 1/8/14, Chris

Re: how to specify kernel parameter "memmap="

2014-01-07 Thread Long Wind
On 1/8/14, Chris Bannister wrote: > > He mentioned that the woody installer "boots" OK. > > -- the woody install CD fails to boot installer, but woody on a hard disk can boot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

Re: how to specify kernel parameter "memmap="

2014-01-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 06:51:07PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 07 January 2014 17:38:18 Nitebirdz wrote: > > In any case, isn't it strange that Linux won't boot because it > > "can't correctly detect memory map" on a system with only 1GB of > > memory? Are we sure that's the root of the p

Re: how to specify kernel parameter "memmap="

2014-01-07 Thread Long Wind
I am trying various memmap= option this morning before booting a Linux installer, I enter: memmap=exactmap memmap=512M@1M memmap=1M$0 the screen turn blank after a while if I don't enter memmap option, it reboot I am not sure whether this can be called progress -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: how to specify kernel parameter "memmap="

2014-01-07 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 07 January 2014 17:38:18 Nitebirdz wrote: > In any case, isn't it strange that Linux won't boot because it > "can't correctly detect memory map" on a system with only 1GB of > memory? Are we sure that's the root of the problem? Is it possible > to run a live distro from CD, for instance?

Re: how to specify kernel parameter "memmap="

2014-01-07 Thread Nitebirdz
On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 05:04:26PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 07 January 2014 15:45:39 Nitebirdz wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 09:03:03AM -0500, Long Wind wrote: > > > I can't boot many Linux, probably because linux can't correctly > > > detect memory map > > > Would the following

Re: how to specify kernel parameter "memmap="

2014-01-07 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 07 January 2014 15:45:39 Nitebirdz wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 09:03:03AM -0500, Long Wind wrote: > > I can't boot many Linux, probably because linux can't correctly > > detect memory map > Would the following links help? > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1911473/force-linux-t

Re: how to specify kernel parameter "memmap="

2014-01-07 Thread Nitebirdz
On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 09:03:03AM -0500, Long Wind wrote: > > I can't boot many Linux, probably because linux can't correctly detect > memory map > so I have to specify myself, below is copied from kernel-parameters.txt > Could it be that you need to run the PAE kernel? http://en.wikipedia.org/

how to specify kernel parameter "memmap="

2014-01-07 Thread Long Wind
I can't boot many Linux, probably because linux can't correctly detect memory map so I have to specify myself, below is copied from kernel-parameters.txt memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact E820 memory map, as specified by the user.