From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FBZzQ-0003py-F8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:03:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1LG0WCL025418; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:00:32 GMT Received: from stuarthaas.com (dsl254-112-163.nyc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.254.112.163]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1LG0UA3032352 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:00:30 GMT X-Scanned-By: RAE MPP/Sophos http://www.messagepartners.com X-Scanned-By: This message was scanned by MPP v.2 (www.messagepartners.com) X-Scanned-By: RAE MPP/Clamd http://www.messagepartners.com X-Scanned-By: RAE MPP/Cloudmark http://www.messagepartners.com Received: from [67.88.57.130] (account stuart HELO [192.168.0.81]) by stuarthaas.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.8) with ESMTPSA id 2510911 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:00:29 -0500 Message-ID: <43FB3914.4090300@stuarthaas.com> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:00:20 -0500 From: Stuart Haas User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Memory Limit References: <43FB2838.2050901@ihydra.com> <200602211644.30454.pauldv@gentoo.org> <43FB36A6.8070307@ihydra.com> In-Reply-To: <43FB36A6.8070307@ihydra.com> Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: afeaab4f-c17d-4819-af76-0c1834b9e901 X-Archives-Hash: 84f671d2a82755b17f5e881fc8a1d97f Sounds to me like it might be a hardware/bios problem, rather than a kernel issue. I remember having a similar problem a while ago with my system (with less RAM of course).

What mother board and BIOS are you running? How many CPUs? Also, what RAM are you using?

Stuart

Ryan Rice wrote:

It does get past GRUB. When it goes to load the image off the drive it chokes.

I cannot get past 31GB what so ever. When I load it up to 32GB or more, I get this problem, and when I drop back down to 31GB all is fine.

I have memory testing/burn-in equipment, which says all of the DIMMs' are in perfect working order.

It reboots so fast, that I'm not aware of a way to snag the dump before it reboots. Any suggestions?

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Paul de Vrieze wrote:

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 15:48, Ryan Rice wrote:

I am having a problem putting 32GB or more of RAM into my system with
Gentoo.

I can install Gentoo (2005.1 r1) perfectly fine even on 30GB or lower,
once I get up in to the OS, if I shut down the machine and stock it up
to 64GB, when the system comes back online, and goes to boot the kernel
out of the loader, the system resets itself and goes back to POST.  Any
ideas?

I've even tried to re-compile to kernel 2.6.15.4 and that gives me a
panic citing an Oops! Attempted to kill init!

Let me know if you'd like more detail.


Does the kernel reboot itself or is it grub that chokes? Does it also have 
the problems with 32 GB, or with 48 GB? And what about 63 (if you can 
test that). You might also want to try to get at the output of the kernel 
before it reboots.

Paul

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