On Friday 18 January 2008, José Pedro Saraiva wrote: > Hi all, wise gentoo users! > I've recently bought an extra GB of RAM for my laptop. After inserting it, > kernel refuses to boot, it hangs at "Booting the kernel" > I'm sure there's nothing wrong with the RAM, so it must be some other > issue, perhaps related with my boot options?
Well, if you haven't changed anything else other than the RAM module since the last time you booted the machine, then the problem would not be with your Grub configuration . . . If you have, then revert the change. > Any help or ideas are welcome :) Boot a LiveCD and run memtest86. Sometimes even new memory modules are duff. > Here's an extract of my grub.conf: > > title Gentoo 2.6.22-r8 > root (hd0,1) > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r8 root=/dev/sda5 > splash=verbose,fadein,theme:emergence fbcon=scrollback:128K > console=/dev/tty1 combined_mode=libata > initrd /boot/fbsplash-emergence-1024x768 HTH. -- Regards, Mick
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