I have a Compaq DL380 G3 with 5GB RAM running Debian stable. I installed with and am running the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel that came with debian. However, not all of my ram is being seen. I only get about 900MB of it and the kernel tells me that I need a PAE enabled kernel. So I downloaded the kernel-source-2.4.18 package and rebuilt my kernel according to the instructions located at: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en.html#s-kernel-debian
I decided to not change anything and first to just test the process and produce the same kernel with the config file. That worked and booted fine. I then enabled highmem and PAE support, recompiled, and booted with that kernel. However, the system won't boot with the highmem enabled kernel. The kernel messages indicate that my array is seen and that my root partition is mounted read only. Then after the kernel states that it's freeing unused memory, I get a kernel panic stating that it can't find init. If I append init=/sbin/init at the LILO prompt it doesn't help. Here's a diff between the two config files I'm using to compile the kernel: 51c51 < CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y --- > # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set 53c53,55 < # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set --- > CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y > CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y > CONFIG_X86_PAE=y Has anyone seen this problem before? I have no idea why highmem support would make the kernel not be able to execute init. -- Matt Perry | matt at primefactor dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
