On 2006 October 13 10:22, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Friday 13 October 2006 17:41, stuart bell wrote: > > Hi All, > > A new problem today. > > My Tosh Sat Pro 4290 laptop running Mandriva One. > > When I try to put in new RAM the thing won't boot, it goes through the > > bios check routine and say RAM ok but after LiLo it stops with the > > message Kernel panic attempted to kill init. > > It 64MB on board which is sdram 10ns. The new expansion Ram is 7,5 > > ns. It seems ok in the bios stage of boot as the machine counts the > > RAM and says OK but Mandriva doesn't seem to like it at all. The > > processor is 550MHz. I thought of updating the bios but that comes as > > a Windows exe so yet another snag! I re-seated the RAM sticks several > > times. > > Wrist slashingly yours > > Stuart > > Give a live-cd distro like "knoppix" or even better "slax", which comes as > a 250Mb iso and doesn't need more than 32Mb ram to boot. > > If that works and recognizes your ram it's Mandy playing up. If that's the > case just boot from cd1 and opt for the "upgrade 2007" option which will > only take a few minutes. > > Frankly, I expect that your laptop doesn't like the new ram not Mandy.
And, if you have knoppix, one of the boot options is to run memtest, which would be a good idea. Often the bios is set to do a quick test, which isn't very thorough. Problems can slip through it that memtest would pick up. Ron -- Opinions are mine. Don't blame anyone else. Rely on them at your own risk. ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
