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- From: st1n2@rosie.uh.edu (McCoy, Mark)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: added memory - now Linux crashes
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 00:59 CST
- Organization: University of Houston
- Lines: 40
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <24DEC199200595665@rosie.uh.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: rosie.uh.edu
- News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
-
- My setup:
- 486DX-33 noname
- 4 MB
- orchid prodesigner II
-
- This past weekend, I installed the latest SLS release of Linux. Although
- I grabbed X, I decided to wait to install it until I added more memory
- to my machine. Linux was up and running with no problems.
- I added an additional 4 megs of RAM on Monday (for a total of 8 megs),
- and now Linux bombs after appx 26 seconds with the following message:
-
-
- swap_free: weirness
- ..
- swap_free: weirness
- swap_free: swap-space map bad (page 64)
- swap_free: weirness
- ..
- swap_free: weirness
-
- unable to handle kernel page request at address c0000500
- Oops: 0000
- EIP: 0008:0000B758
- EFLAGS: 00010206
- fs: 0017
- base: 00000000, limit: c0000000
- Pid: 1, precess nr: 1
- 8b 13 85 d2 74 22 83 3a 01 75
-
- At first I thought that I must have gotten a bad simm, but I have
- tested the RAM using DOS Checkit 3.0, and it finds no problems. Linux
- works fine if I disable the RAM that I added. I haven't got a clue.
-
- Has anyone else had a similar problem?
- Can anyone recommend a diagnostic tool that may be more thorough than
- Checkit?
-
- Thanks in advance
- Mark McCoy
- st1n2@jetson.uh.edu
-