Peter Roopnarine [proopnarine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote: > Hi, > I hope that someone out there can help me. I have an 8-way Opteron running > Fedora 5. Yesterday I attempted to add 8 Gb of ECC RAM to the current 8 Gb of > ECC RAM, and upon selecting the OS from the GRUB menu got a kernel panic > screen. I've since removed the new RAM, returning the memory configuration to > exactly the starting state, and still no luck. I've also tried to run > memtest86 but it hangs, and I cannot boot into linux rescue mode. The message > that I get there is: > kernel direct mapping tables up to 200000000 @ 8000-8000 > PANIC: early exception rip ffffffff801172db error 0 cr2 ffffffffff5fd023 > PANIC: early exception rip ffffffff801172db error 0 cr2 ffffffffff5fd023 > > The system reports 7166 MB of memory present. I am going to try the memory > modules one at a time, and hope that the problem lies there. A different > hardware problem would not be good, and a hard disk problem would be > horrible. > Thanks for any help! If trying the memory modules one at a time does not resolve your dilemma, you should also consider the memory slots (it is possible that one of them is bad). Also, have you checked your BIOS: does it see all the memory? And your motherboard is capable of all that RAM, right? Good luck. T.
