CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y for x86_64 SMP kernels

[Stephen J Smoogen]

Ed Hill wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 10:53, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:42:14AM -0400, Ed Hill wrote:
>>
>>>I guess it was just a coincidence that some of the kernels worked with
>>>mem=12G and others didn't.  I've moved the machine to a new location and
>>>now *none* of the kernels I have (neither mine nor the Fedora ones) will
>>>boot with "mem=12G".  The best I can get to work is "mem=3950M".
>>
>>If you don't specify mem= does it find all your RAM. ALso what chipset ?
> 
> 
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> Since the K8D_Master-F MB would no longer POST, we swapped in a Tyan
> 2885 with the below HW.  The good news is that we're not having any
> memory recognition problems.  The bad news is that we now have an
> annoying but otherwise harmless boot situation which is:
> 
>   - the initial boot always fails very early in the boot process
>       and causes a system reset
>   - a warm reboot commences
>   - this second attempt (and any further warm reboots) work just 
>       fine
>   - any complete power-down will cause the first boot attempt 
>       to fail
> 

Sounds like crap hardware. I heard of something like that before.. it 
was 'fixed'  with a 'BIOS' update..

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