From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JG1Di-0003P5-Bw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:05:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6116AE0896; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:05:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.156]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0459E0818 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:05:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e21so1233756fga.14 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:05:36 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=kIag8rBS0ZFo/u/TvpfMc9uB05QrkNlE4FDUz7j3U4k=; b=DJkv0PxfZRFV1zhtphnp+mYhPPdXARud16pVj6pW5v1sUn1hXfD5Mq7BWRS81Prj5bGFXI4OATbB/JInuMe+0L0cC85u0pGmoIN5LaR/tTgndlagnwgh4a2/T8M/rAc/5EK2YUTqFAPoXWi4BJ1mBlJZPjDBhbQyoq2uavrfAs0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=M5macLUxs8tbkVX2wyq1INmyZNvL802p8KKGDHylqoYm/irXxoksNrC7dvcjyBwQ20IrCHDH/cEUIxzHQ30xwIn6rPS8GXmydEF1+BM/CK9Kxg1LePX2rFKJ8+EIhMnBZH9Ou9TvYqNdik4gtg1k/AKgTItCwxhR8+1qjx5FPOY= Received: by 10.82.152.16 with SMTP id z16mr7079554bud.17.1200701136278; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:05:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy.study ( [213.162.120.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z33sm3654363ikz.0.2008.01.18.16.05.34 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:05:35 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No kernel boot after inserting more ram Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:04:25 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <12a679470801181458y54f73ed8i6f81761b7e8f72b8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <12a679470801181458y54f73ed8i6f81761b7e8f72b8@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2562015.0mSFy3gP7D"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200801190004.27384.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 88ceb0fc-eea3-4aeb-88f6-b43cdfe11671 X-Archives-Hash: 51a887617a933608d5f98ff0ab3c7e59 --nextPart2562015.0mSFy3gP7D Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 18 January 2008, Jos=C3=A9 Pedro Saraiva wrote: > Hi all, wise gentoo users! > I've recently bought an extra GB of RAM for my laptop. After inserting it, > kernel refuses to boot, it hangs at "Booting the kernel" > I'm sure there's nothing wrong with the RAM, so it must be some other > issue, perhaps related with my boot options? Well, if you haven't changed anything else other than the RAM module since = the=20 last time you booted the machine, then the problem would not be with your=20 Grub configuration . . . If you have, then revert the change. > Any help or ideas are welcome :) Boot a LiveCD and run memtest86. Sometimes even new memory modules are duf= f. > Here's an extract of my grub.conf: > > title Gentoo 2.6.22-r8 > root (hd0,1) > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r8 root=3D/dev/sda5 > splash=3Dverbose,fadein,theme:emergence fbcon=3Dscrollback:128K > console=3D/dev/tty1 combined_mode=3Dlibata > initrd /boot/fbsplash-emergence-1024x768 HTH. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2562015.0mSFy3gP7D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHkT6L5Fp0QerLYPcRAlJ5AJwKlKICfS7BebiNdVFDUpUzuCM43gCcD6qm 8SCcBSPH7+rHFyyiTcx2tt8= =JaZj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2562015.0mSFy3gP7D-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list