Subject: Boot hangs with 16M ram

From: [email-masked] (Miro Torrielli)
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 19:44:47 +0200 (MET DST)

My debian box doesn't seem to be able to boot with
16 megs ram!!

Dos and windows works fine, but Linux just hangs after
it does partition check. I boot with lilo, using both
kernels 2.0.17 & 18. The basic Debian boot disks crash
when mounting the ramdisk, dumping register values and
informing me of a protection fault. Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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From: "Brian C. White" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 13:45:24 -0400

> informing me of a protection fault. Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You probably have a hardware problem with the memory.  I recently tried
to add an extra 16MB to my system.  It was EDO ram and worked fine under
dos/windows, but not Linux.  Linux places much higher stress on the
memory subsystem.
                                             
                                          Brian
                                 ( [email-masked] )
                                             
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