On Sat, 2006-12- 09 at 10:38 -0500, Jim Duda wrote: > I'm running Fedora Core 5. > > I have a plain vanilla 2.8Ghz P4 Intel motherboard with 4 DIMM slots. I > currently have 1 DIMM of 512M DDR 3200 memory. I purchased a second > DIMM of the same 3200 memory hoping to upgrade the memory. > > When I install the second DIMM, the BIOS properly recognizes it, > however, FC5 won't boot properly. The boot time takes forever. The > bootup is sitting in "Starting UDEV" for a very long time. > > I believe the new memory DIMM is okay, I can use either memory DIMM > properly, however, attempting to use both causes a problem. > > I'm stumped as to what could possibly be wrong. > > I don't use the stock FC5 kernel, but instead have compiled my own > 2.6.18-1 kernel. I have the Memory Split option set to the default > 3G/1G user/kernel split. > > I don't know if this is the correct list to ask this question. Does > anyone have any suggestions? > My machine just began showing that behavior last evening, and I haven't touched the hardware configuration. If I wait long enough (2+ minutes) the UDEV service officially "fails" but the machine continues to boot w/o incident. It very well may have been some update I inadvertently applied; I haven't taken the time to research the issue thoroughly. In short it may not have anything at all to do with your new memory. David-Paul Niner > Jim > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
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