Just a thought... Did you enable High Memory support in your kernel? 
Processor type and features  --->
 High Memory Support  --->
  (X) 4GB

On Jan 18, 2008 4:10 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca> wrote:
080118 José 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, hangs at "Booting the kernel"

The first thing is to re-insert the RAM very carefully,
then to check that no other connections got dislodged accidentally.
Just my bit of Gentoo wisdom (smile).

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