linux 2.4.19 and E820 problems CONFIRMED

[Eric W. Biederman]

"Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich at lanl.gov> writes:

> I have just confirmed that 2.4.19 won't work at all with the memory split. 
> 
> I set remap_high to disable in cmos and the node is now workig correctly.
> 
> I think I'm going to have a CONFIG option to disable this completely, 
> since if it gets turned on accidently I have an unbootable node. Comments?

A small one.  For the short term this is not necessary as the remap_high option
is not available in fallback mode. So you should still be able to boot problematical
machines.

Eric