On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Roelof van der Kleij wrote:
Here is a redhat bugzilla entry about this problem:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239931
Some 64 bit kernel / bios combinations have problems with >= 4 Gb of
memory. If you have that, try it with only 2 Gb of memory installed. If
this is your problem, try playing with memory mapping bios settings. In
my case, I ran into it with an Intel DQ965GFE motherboard after a bios
upgrade.
This was indeed the problem. I have 4GB RAM on the system. I'm now passing
'mem=3G' as a kernel parameter for a temporary workaround, and the system
boots up at the expected speed.
Very many thanks :)
Mark
