kernel panic

[Louis J. Romero]

hi Pablo,

There is an earlier version of NBP ( aka linux.0 ) which can't handle memory > 
768 MB.  Grab an NBP off the net.  Linux.c has a code segment that figures 
out the amount of memory on the machine.  You should see a code segment that 
computes memory for machines that have < 768 MB and a code segment that 
computes memory for machines with > 768 MB.  I know that pxe-0.1-33.src.rpm 
for redhat has the NBP that can handle the extra memory.  pxe-0.1-28.src.rpm 
did not.

Louis
On Monday 28 October 2002 08:33 am, Pablo wrote:
> Change the initrd location to... ? Thanks !
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Huntsinger, Reid [mailto:reid_huntsinger at merck.com]
> Enviado el: Lunes 28 de Octubre de 2002 11:27 AM
> Para: 'beowulf at beowulf.org'; 'aqui at anvet.com.ar'
> Asunto: RE: kernel panic
>
>
> Are you using etherboot? I've had this problem with an older etherboot's
> mknbi. The initrd gets loaded someplace the kernel doesn't expect when you
> have more than about 800MB RAM. The solution was to change the location at
> which the initrd is loaded. But I believe the current mknbi fixes this
> problem.
>
> Reid Huntsinger
>
> From: "Pablo" <aqui at anvet.com.ar>
> To: <beowulf at beowulf.org>
> Subject: kernel panic
> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 23:43:11 -0300
>
> Hi everybody,
> I've recently added 512MB of memory to one of my nodes (it already has
> 512MB). It does a network boot and display the "kernel panic" message
> trying to mount root (vfs).
> Removing 512MB (leaving 512MB), works fine. Any idea ?
> Thanks,
> Pablo.
>
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