kernel panic

Thad Nielsen paroikos at myrealbox.com
Fri Aug 25 17:57:02 UTC 2006


Peter Roopnarine [proopnarine at calacademy.org] wrote:
> Hi,
>   I hope that someone out there can help me. I have an 8-way Opteron running 
> Fedora 5. Yesterday I attempted to add 8 Gb of ECC RAM to the current 8 Gb of 
> ECC RAM, and upon selecting the OS from the GRUB menu got a kernel panic 
> screen. I've since removed the new RAM, returning the memory configuration to 
> exactly the starting state, and still no luck. I've also tried to run 
> memtest86 but it hangs, and I cannot boot into linux rescue mode. The message 
> that I get there is:
> kernel direct mapping tables up to 200000000 @ 8000-8000
> PANIC: early exception rip ffffffff801172db error 0 cr2 ffffffffff5fd023
> PANIC: early exception rip ffffffff801172db error 0 cr2 ffffffffff5fd023
> 
> The system reports 7166 MB of memory present. I am going to try the memory 
> modules one at a time, and hope that the problem lies there. A different 
> hardware problem would not be good, and a hard disk problem would be 
> horrible.
>   Thanks for any help!

If trying the memory modules one at a time does not resolve your
dilemma, you should also consider the memory slots (it is possible
that one of them is bad).  Also, have you checked your BIOS: does it
see all the memory?  And your motherboard is capable of all that RAM,
right?  Good luck.

	T.





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