Francois Pepin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I am getting pseudo-random kernel oops on my Opteron box (Tyan Thunder > K8W) with 4Gb RAM. I am running RedHad FC3 with kernel > 2.6.11-1.35_FC3smp. > > It runs well with default BIOS settings, but only 3.5Gb RAM are visible. > Using the "Software Memory Hole" option in the BIOS (version 3.02) > remaps the last 2Gb to 4-6Gb. This causes kernel oops with various > applications, generally killing them. > > I can reproduce it by loading lots of data into R (which caused the oops > below). Various other applications have caused it
Software memory hole is broken in the BIOS. Don't use it. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
