Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic---SOLVED?

2002-06-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 07:13:24AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | This isn't an adequate engineering solution to the problem since it is | contrary to what I understood about the liloconfig system. | What does work is: linux mem=768M | What was in lilo.conf that I removed was 'append "mem=128M" an

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic---SOLVED?

2002-06-13 Thread Tom Allison
Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 20:13, Tom Allison wrote: Tom Allison wrote: I got a really interesting one. I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the boot sequence. [snip] Freeing initrd memory: 2700k freed V

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic---cramfs problem

2002-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 20:13, Tom Allison wrote: > Tom Allison wrote: > > > I got a really interesting one. > > > > I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. > > I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the boot > > sequence. [snip] > Freeing initrd memory: 2700k freed > VFS:

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 08:48:01PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | >On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 06:51:17PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | >| The failure during boot is where the VFS fails to find the device at the | >| address/location specified. | > | >How about double-checki

Re: [MDLUG] Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic---cramfs problem

2002-06-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:07:40PM -0400, Joe Landman wrote: | On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 21:13, Tom Allison wrote: | | > devfs: v1.10 (20020120) Richard Gooch | > devfs: boot_options: 0x0 | | No matter what else is a problem, the above is also very much a problem. | | Just say no to devfs. I've bee

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread James D Strandboge
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 20:48, Tom Allison wrote: > >>I upgraded my RAM to replace the current 128M to 768M > >> > >>Now, when I boot it panics with a message that VFS can't mount > >>the root device at 03:02. > >> > > > > > I selected the limit of 768M based on conversations with the MOBO MFG > a

Re: [MDLUG] Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic---cramfs problem

2002-06-12 Thread Joe Landman
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 21:13, Tom Allison wrote: > devfs: v1.10 (20020120) Richard Gooch > devfs: boot_options: 0x0 No matter what else is a problem, the above is also very much a problem. Just say no to devfs. It mucks with device things in ways that cause exactly the sort of problem you have.

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic---cramfs problem

2002-06-12 Thread Tom Allison
Tom Allison wrote: I got a really interesting one. I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the boot sequence. I upgraded my RAM to replace the current 128M to 768M Now, when I boot it panics with a message that VFS can't mount

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Tom Allison
Gerhard Gaussling wrote: Am Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2002 22:51 schrieb Tom Allison: I got a really interesting one. I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the boot sequence. I upgraded my RAM to replace the current 128M to 768M No

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Tom Allison
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 06:51:17PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | I figured out the floppy boot for memtest86.bin. It's running now (wall | time == 1:12:24 elapsed). | I am currently on test #7 of ??? and have no errors. I assume that it's | at least nothing obviou

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:01:24 -0500 > "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > memtest86 runs forever (until you stop it). You determine when you > > think it's run long enough to elminate the possibility/probability of > > errors. >

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:01:24 -0500 "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > memtest86 runs forever (until you stop it). You determine when you > think it's run long enough to elminate the possibility/probability of > errors. Not quite. Memtest86 will run all of it's test infinitely,

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Am Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2002 22:51 schrieb Tom Allison: > I got a really interesting one. > > I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. > I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the > boot sequence. > > I upgraded my RAM to replace the current 128M to 768M > > Now, when I boot

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 06:51:17PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | I figured out the floppy boot for memtest86.bin. It's running now (wall | time == 1:12:24 elapsed). | I am currently on test #7 of ??? and have no errors. I assume that it's | at least nothing obviously wrong with the RAM. memtest

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Tom Allison
Gary Hennigan wrote: "Jamin W.Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:51:06 -0400 "Tom Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I got a really interesting one. I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the boot s

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 05:06:59PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | Jamin W. Collins wrote: | >Have you tested the new memory? Memtest86 is a great tool for doing just | >this. | | I tried loading this in lilo and I got a fatal error that the kernel | doesn't support ram disks I suspect your lil

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread CaT
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 04:59:14PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > >Have you tested the new memory? Memtest86 is a great tool for doing just > >this. > > I can't get it to boot in order to test it. > I was assuming that since it was detected and was able to start booting > from /dev/hda that it was i

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 15:50, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:51:06 -0400 > "Tom Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I got a really interesting one. > > > > I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. > > I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the boot

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jamin W.Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:51:06 -0400 > "Tom Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I got a really interesting one. > > > > I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. > > I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the boot > > se

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 15:59, Tom Allison wrote: > Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > >On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:51:06 -0400 > >"Tom Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I got a really interesting one. > >> > >>I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. > >>I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS,

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Tom Allison
Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:51:06 -0400 "Tom Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I got a really interesting one. I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the boot sequence. I upgraded my RAM to replace the c

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:59:14 -0400 "Tom Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > >Have you tested the new memory? Memtest86 is a great tool for doing > >just this. > > I can't get it to boot in order to test it. Memtest is it's own stand alone item. There is no need t

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Tom Allison
Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:51:06 -0400 "Tom Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I got a really interesting one. I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the boot sequence. I upgraded my RAM to replace the c

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:51:06 -0400 "Tom Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got a really interesting one. > > I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. > I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the boot > sequence. > > I upgraded my RAM to replace the current 128M to

RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Tom Allison
I got a really interesting one. I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the boot sequence. I upgraded my RAM to replace the current 128M to 768M Now, when I boot it panics with a message that VFS can't mount the root device at