[ale] Adding RAM -- Linux not happy

[Ben Coleman]

On Fri, 6 Jul 2001 15:34:16 -0400, Michael B Golden wrote:

>        I just received my shipment of a 64MB RAM chip to add to my
>system to take me up to 128MB. Now, Linux is not happy at all about it.If
>I try to let it auto-detect, the kernel will hang. If I specify mem=128M,
>it will get further, but reboot before it gets to init. If I specify
>mem=64M, it will boot as normal. I've tried to use the rescue image on
>the Mandrake 8.0 CD, but then I get a kernel panic. I can't find anything
>wrong in the logs (but perhaps I don't know what to look for) and the
>BIOS finds it fine. Any ideas?

Any possibility the new chip is bad?  Try swapping chip positions or
(better) booting with only the new chip.  If it dies then, you've
probably got a bad chip.

Ben
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