Re: [gentoo-user] No kernel boot after inserting more ram

2008-01-21 Thread José Pedro Saraiva
On Jan 20, 2008 10:43 PM, Thomas Kahle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I guess your kernel is configured to support only 1GB of RAM. In the kernel configuration look for Processor Type and Features There you find the Option. High Memory Support.

Re: [gentoo-user] No kernel boot after inserting more ram

2008-01-20 Thread José Pedro Saraiva
Well, after all kinds of tests and trying different types of memory configurations, I can only conclude that my kernel boots normally with 1 GB of RAM installed but hangs when I have 2 GB of RAM installed. I can't find a logical reason for this to happen. Any pointers or suggestions are welcome,

Re: [gentoo-user] No kernel boot after inserting more ram

2008-01-20 Thread Thomas Kahle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I guess your kernel is configured to support only 1GB of RAM. In the kernel configuration look for Processor Type and Features There you find the Option. High Memory Support. Probably it is set to off. Set it to 4GB then recompile the kernel.

RE: [gentoo-user] No kernel boot after inserting more ram

2008-01-20 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
-Original Message- From: José Pedro Saraiva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 4:48 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org ...snip... - Booted with both memories on windows successfully ...snip... This is surprising. Have you tried to boot from a liveCD

Re: [gentoo-user] No kernel boot after inserting more ram

2008-01-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:58:59 +, José Pedro Saraiva wrote: I'm sure there's nothing wrong with the RAM, How? Have you run memtest? -- Neil Bothwick Phasers don't kill people...Unless you set them too high. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] No kernel boot after inserting more ram

2008-01-19 Thread Hal Martin
An alternative to running memtest (which is quite easy to do, I might add) would be to remove the original RAM and see if the computer boots with the new RAM only. Alternatively, you could just run memtest, as it is included with many BIOSs now. It doesn't take long to identify problems, if there

Re: [gentoo-user] No kernel boot after inserting more ram

2008-01-19 Thread José Pedro Saraiva
Following your replies I've done the following, in an attempt to isolate the problem: (memory #1 - old memory, memory #2 - new memory) - Runned memtest on both memories with 0 errors - Booted with both memories... kernel hang - Booted with memory #1 on slot #1 successfully - Booted with memory #1

Re: [gentoo-user] No kernel boot after inserting more ram

2008-01-18 Thread Mike
Just a thought... Did you enable High Memory support in your kernel? Processor type and features --- High Memory Support --- (X) 4GB On Jan 18, 2008 4:10 PM, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 080118 José Pedro Saraiva wrote: Hi all, wise gentoo users! I've recently bought an extra

Re: [gentoo-user] No kernel boot after inserting more ram

2008-01-18 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
Nothing to do about it... If he's using amd64 that option doesn't even exist. And even if he's on x86, if that option is not enabled, it will boot, but will just not use all the memory phisically available. On 1/18/08, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a thought... Did you enable High Memory

Re: [gentoo-user] No kernel boot after inserting more ram

2008-01-18 Thread Philip Webb
080118 José Pedro Saraiva wrote: Hi all, wise gentoo users! I've recently bought an extra GB of RAM for my laptop. After inserting it, kernel refuses to boot, hangs at Booting the kernel The first thing is to re-insert the RAM very carefully, then to check that no other connections got

Re: [gentoo-user] No kernel boot after inserting more ram

2008-01-18 Thread Statux
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 22:58 +, José Pedro Saraiva wrote: Hi all, wise gentoo users! I've recently bought an extra GB of RAM for my laptop. After inserting it, kernel refuses to boot, it hangs at Booting the kernel I'm sure there's nothing wrong with the RAM, so it must be some other

[gentoo-user] No kernel boot after inserting more ram

2008-01-18 Thread José Pedro Saraiva
Hi all, wise gentoo users! I've recently bought an extra GB of RAM for my laptop. After inserting it, kernel refuses to boot, it hangs at Booting the kernel I'm sure there's nothing wrong with the RAM, so it must be some other issue, perhaps related with my boot options? Any help or ideas are

Re: [gentoo-user] No kernel boot after inserting more ram

2008-01-18 Thread Mick
On Friday 18 January 2008, José Pedro Saraiva wrote: Hi all, wise gentoo users! I've recently bought an extra GB of RAM for my laptop. After inserting it, kernel refuses to boot, it hangs at Booting the kernel I'm sure there's nothing wrong with the RAM, so it must be some other issue,