Subject: Re: RAM limitations with YDL?
From: Darren Graham (dfgraham@scs.dera.gov.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 09:19:43 MDT
Chris,
I have exactly the same problem. Your problem is caused by the kernel not
supporting that much RAM. You will have to upgrade to 2.14.x. There is a
2.14.x pre-release but i haven't tried it yet. I'm running 2.2.15pre19-ben1.
Sorry,
Daz
At 09:53 06/09/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>
> Last night I tried to add an additional 512MB of RAM (making it 1 GB
>total) in my G4 server machine which is currently running YDL CS1.2
>(default kernel). With the additional RAM, the machine wouldn't boot.
>Yaboot would seem to work properly, but instead if booting, I would get 5
>lines of memory addresses (2 per line) with the last line saying
>'booting...' and then the machine would freeze.
>
> I removed one of the 256MB DIMMS, and I got the same thing, only when I
>removed all the additional RAM did my machine boot again.
>
> So, today I'm going to test out the RAM in another G4, as I can't really
>test this one because it is a live search engine machine (as well as file
>server for our office).... but I was wondering: Are there any RAM
>limitations in YDL? I have 512 MB of swap space, would I need to change
>this to 1GB also?
>
> Any help, info would be much appreciated.
>
> Puzzled,
>
>Chris
>
>--
>
>Christopher Murtagh
>Webmaster / Web Communications Group
>McGill University
>Montreal, Quebec
>Canada
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