Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 328871
installed native kernel fails to boot w/ 4 (or more) GB RAM on board ....
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:12:18 EST
Description of problem: native F7 kernel fails to boot after install w/ > 2 GB RAM onboard. never get up to X-window boot part, fails w/ message ending w/ 'Aiieeeee killing interrupt handler' on console & hangs there until Ctrl-Alt-Del to shutdown .... Works AOK w/ 2 GB RAM, fails w/ 4 GB or more. mbd (Gigabyte P965 DS3) ran memtest86 for ~22 hours w/ all 8 GB RAM installed, completed 7 passes, 0 errors. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Try it yourself .... Steps to Reproduce: 1. access system w/ 4 or more GB RAM onboard 2. install & try to boot .... 3. Actual results: boot fails to complete, ends w/ message of 'Aiieeeee killing interrupt handler' on console. Boots & runs fine w/ 2 GB RAM onboard .... Expected results: boot & run AOK w/ all 8 GB RAM onboard .... Additional info: none, boot dies in console mode, can't retreive info to pass along ....
Take a picture of the screen with a digital camera and post that. (and boot with kernel option "vga=792" or "vga=1" to get more lines on the screen)
update: This was all happening w/ the default installed kernel 2.6.21.<box-stock, May 2007>. I upgraded my kernel for other reasons & the new one boots AOK w/ all 8 GB of RAM onboard :-). You may close this out & mark this one .... *BUSTED*.