Valentin Nechayev wrote:
>
> Sun, May 20, 2001 at 19:53:29, barry (Barry Lustig) wrote about "Boot time memory
>issue":
>
> Do verbose boot (`boot -v') with large SC_HISTORY_SIZE (1000 at least,
> 2000 at most), and after boot check for "SMAP ..." lines at the very
> beginning of the kernel boot log at /dev/console. (They are not written
> to log viewable with dmesg.) Another way is to use serial console.
> With this SMAP lines one can say more concrete diagnosis.
Here are the SMAP lines:
SMAP type=01 base=00000000 00000000 len=00000000 0009f800
SMAP type=02 base=00000000 0009f800 len=00000000 00000800
SMAP type=02 base=00000000 000e8400 len=00000000 00017c00
SMAP type=01 base=00000000 00100000 len=00000000 13ef0000
SMAP type=03 base=00000000 13ff0000 len=00000000 0000f800
SMAP type=04 base=00000000 13fff800 len=00000000 00000800
SMAP type=02 base=00000000 fff80000 len=00000000 00080000
Too many holes in the physical address space, giving up
>
> > I was curious whether the memory limitation on the Sony VAIO Z505
> > machines was an actual hardware limitation or a marketing issue. I just
> > tried adding a 256MB module to my machine. The BIOS seemed to mostly
> > recognize it.
> > It did see 320MB of RAM, but had problems when testing all of it.
> > Current (from
> > a couple of weeks ago) boots, but gives me:
> > Too many holes in the physical address space, giving up
> >
> > and comes up showing 64MB of RAM. Is this something that can be worked
> > around, or have I run up against an actual hardware limit on the
> > machine?
>
> /netch
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