Your message dated Sat, 3 Oct 2009 14:10:18 +0200
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has caused the report #549429,
regarding error: too small lower memory (0x99100 > 0x96000)
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
author(s) Samuel Demeulemeester <[email protected]>
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Hi Sam,
There must be something particular on this machine. I could check
that the package works from grub2 on a 4GB Dell laptop.
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 12:53:42PM +0200, Matthijs Melchior wrote:
> Package: memtest86+
> Version: 4.00-2
> Severity: important
>
> *** Please type your report below this line ***
>
> When starting memtest86+ from grub2, the following error message is
> displayed:
>
> error: too small lower memory (0x99100 > 0x96000)
>
> My MB is ASUS P5K PRO with 4 GByte memory.
>
> The memory map as present in the Linux dmesg file is as follows:
>
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000096000 (usable)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000096000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000cff80000 (usable)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000cff80000 - 00000000cff8e000 (ACPI data)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000cff8e000 - 00000000cffe0000 (ACPI NVS)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000cffe0000 - 00000000d0000000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000130000000 (usable)
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
> APT prefers oldstable-proposed-updates
> APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'),
> (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> memtest86+ depends on no packages.
>
> memtest86+ recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages memtest86+ suggests:
> ii grub2 1.97~beta3-1 GRand Unified
> Bootloader, version
> pn hwtools <none> (no description available)
> pn kernel-patch-badram <none> (no description available)
> pn memtest86 <none> (no description available)
> pn memtester <none> (no description available)
> ii mtools 4.0.10-1 Tools for manipulating
> MSDOS files
>
> -- debconf-show failed
>
>
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