Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (130 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

"Santiago Flores" <santi@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> As much as I would like to send a system to you, my employer would certainly
> not agree. I can send any debugging information you might wish, if you act

I know, I just wanted to say that some things are really hard to debug
if you do not have physical access to a failing system...

> now. ;)
> I am getting ready to wipe it. If there is any information that anyone would
> like collected, please let me know asap.

The complete boot log as far as it gets - attach a serial console for
this...

Andreas

> Thanks,
>
> Santiago
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Jaeger [mailto:aj@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 12:19 PM
> To: Santiago Flores
> Cc: suse-amd64@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Tyan K8S >4GB
>
>
> "Santiago Flores" <santi@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Hello all. I have now tested all of the memory in the system. It all
> appears
>> to work. SUSE works fine with <=4GB of ram in the system. After that it
>> always fails independent of APIC and IOMMU settings. However, when I
> attempt
>> to reinstall SUSE again, the install boots and works fine with the 6GB in
>> the system.
>
>> Any ideas? I would rather not wipe it again.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Santiago
>>
>> (I have followed all of the 4Gb discussions for this board, the MSI board,
>> and all of the other boards that have been posted to the list).
>
> I really have no idea.  I fear that I need exactly such a failing
> system sealed and send to us to look at :-(.  It might be everything
> memory type, BIOS bugs, Kernel bug etc.
>
> Andreas

Andreas
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