Hi again, I've left the lab for the week now, so I can't check what DIMM type we're using until Monday. But I do now for sure they work well using the factory BIOS settings, we have several hundred units shipped running Linux well on them without customer complaints.
I'm not sure I understand what I could use memtest86 for at this point? Since I'm not able to start any payloads from LinuxBIOS, I wouldn't be able to run memtest from that? Or do you mean I should run memtest86 started from the route factory BIOS -> GRUB -> memtest86? If so, what is it I should look for??
Are there any special linuxbios memory settings you believe I could try with more conservative settings? But if it's a DRAM issue, wouldn't then the LinuxBIOS itself crash then? Isn't LinuxBIOS relocating itself into the DRAM during startup?
Cheers, /Kjell
On 20 maj 2005, at 17:32, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Kjell Svensson wrote:
Well, the LinuxBIOS booted and everything looked OK up until the same point as I have seen before from my builds; elfboot is started, but the payload seems completely dead... :-(
most likely this is a memory programming issue then. We've had lots of trouble with the tiny DIMMS used on these cards -- the fuctory bios programs them very conservatively, or linuxbios gets something wrong, or some combination of the two, and result is what you are seeing.
Recommend you get memtest86.
Also, the memory that has worked well for us is Apacer. What I have on my SC520 is the Apacer 128MB UBN PC133 CL3 memory.
ron
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