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-...
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-07-30 01:00 UTC by Howard W. Nicholson
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:44 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-07-30 07:42:01 UTC
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Description Howard W. Nicholson 2002-07-30 01:00:29 UTC 
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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.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


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
2.
3.
	

Additional info:
Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2002-07-30 07:41:56 UTC 
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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