2 different FC2 issues: >4GB of RAM, and dead USB ports

[James Wilkinson]

John Burk wrote:
> Issue 1 - FC2 and >4GB of ram panics the kernel
> ------------------------------------------------------
> We're now able to install rhfc2 to the new blades.  Installation 
> finishes, the blades re-boot to a login prompt, but the kernel panics 
> and crashes within a few minutes.  Pulling out the 1GB of ram causes 
> that panics to not occur.  Installing rhes3 on the blades with 5GB 
> installed also produces _no_ kernel panics, so it's not bad ram.  It 
> seems to be related to rhfc2 and >4GB of ram.

Don't rule out bad RAM: RHEL 3 is 2.4 based, and the 2.6 kernel might be
using the memory in a different way.

Don't forget the mem=4G kernel boot parameter tells the kernel to forget
about the highest 1GB of memory.

James.

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