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ReD-BaRoN
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 Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:01 pm Post subject: Gentoo won't boot after adding memory (2GB now) |
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I added more memory to my system to take me up to 2GB. Sparc no longer boots. I saw in this thread, the user had to remove 1GB of his memory to get the system to work.
How can I get Gentoo on Sparc to run with 2GB?
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ciaranm
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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| What kind of system? And did you follow the book for memory order and layout? |
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ReD-BaRoN
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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| This is a U60. I've filled all the slots with 128MB modules. OpenBoot sees the 2GB, and get's to the ok: prompt. I get to SILO, and then it says something about loading kernel into memory and then says Data Access Error. |
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codergeek42
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not a Sparc person (just x86 for now) but this seems odd: | ReD-BaRoN wrote: | | then it says something about loading kernel into memory and then says Data Access Error. |
Perhaps your memory is bad?
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GenTimJS
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| Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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I would suspect that a single stick of all that ram is faulty.
I have a SB1000 which is maxed out with 256meg sticks (2 gigs total) but at one point a single stick was flakey and needed replacing. It wasnt obvious at first, but after my solaris install was being less stable than windows ... I realised something was seriously wrong 
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cooldje
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 8:53 am Post subject: |
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Hi !
I have 16x128Mb modules with a E250 and gentoo works fine 
seems to have bad memory
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