Bug 70074 – append="mem=512M" statement in lilo causes updated kernel 2.4.9-34 and 2.4.9-34smp to hang on boot

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Bug 70074 - append="mem=512M" statement in lilo causes updated kernel 2.4.9-34 and 2.4.9-34smp to hang on boot

Summary:	append="mem=512M" statement in lilo causes updated kernel 2.4.9-34 and 2.4.9-...

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.2
Hardware:	i686 Linux

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Assigned To:	Arjan van de Ven
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Reported:	2002-07-29 21:00 EDT by Howard W. Nicholson
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:44 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-07-30 03:42:01 EDT
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Description Howard W. Nicholson 2002-07-29 21:00:29 EDT

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-34smp i686)

Description of problem:
On my gateway 500MHz dual processor pc with 512MB of ram, the lilo statement
append="mem=512M" causes the updated kernel 2.4.9-34 and 2.4.9-34smp to hang
right after decompression.  The same problem is observed if either kernel is
booted
with the mem=512M option without the append statement in lilo.  I have also seen
this
problem with kernel version 2.4.9-31 on my machine.  Kernel versions 2.4.7-10
and
2.4.7-10smp do NOT have this problem.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot machine with either the append="mem=512M" statement in lilo or with the
kernel argument mem-512M
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Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2002-07-30 03:41:56 EDT

why would you pass the mem= parameter?
also be aware that if you have 512Mb ram it's not uncommon for the bios to "use"
1 mb so effective you have 511Mb...

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