On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 15:59, Tom Allison wrote: > Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > >On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:51:06 -0400 > >"Tom Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I got a really interesting one. > >> > >>I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. > >>I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the boot > >>sequence. > >> > >>I upgraded my RAM to replace the current 128M to 768M > >> > >>Now, when I boot it panics with a message that VFS can't mount the root > >>device at 03:02. > >> > >>If I return to the original RAM, it's fine. > >> > > > >Have you tested the new memory? Memtest86 is a great tool for doing just > >this. > > > I can't get it to boot in order to test it. > I was assuming that since it was detected and was able to start booting > from /dev/hda that it was in part, OK. > It also boots from the Debian Installation CD. Does that CD have memtest86? > > That's probably of some significance -- that it boots from the CD OK.
You must put a reference to memtest86 into lilo/grub. Maybe dpkg does this for you. In any event, memtest86 runs without OS.. -- +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | "I have created a government of whirled peas..." | | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 12-May-2002, | ! CNN, Larry King Live | +---------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
