On Tuesday 10 March 2009, Robin Laing wrote: [...] >In regards to the ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe. I am using one now and it works >like a dream. All I had to do was update the BIOS to fix an issue with >the amount of RAM I was using. It wouldn't recognize anything over 4Gig >when I got it. Which bios image do you have installed on that board? 1502 supports my 4Gb of dram w/o any problems after this oopsen in my bootlog. [ 0.000000] BIOS EBDA/lowmem at: 0009f000/0009f000 [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.28.7 (root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7) (GCC) ) #6 SMP PREEMPT Wed M ar 4 23:08:30 EST 2009 [ 0.000000] KERNEL supported cpus: [ 0.000000] Intel GenuineIntel [ 0.000000] AMD AuthenticAMD [ 0.000000] NSC Geode by NSC [ 0.000000] Cyrix CyrixInstead [ 0.000000] Centaur CentaurHauls [ 0.000000] Transmeta GenuineTMx86 [ 0.000000] Transmeta TransmetaCPU [ 0.000000] UMC UMC UMC UMC [ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000dfee0000 (usable) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000dfee0000 - 00000000dfee3000 (ACPI NVS) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000dfee3000 - 00000000dfef0000 (ACPI data) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000dfef0000 - 00000000dff00000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000f0000000 - 00000000f4000000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000120000000 (usable) [ 0.000000] DMI 2.4 present. [ 0.000000] Phoenix BIOS detected: BIOS may corrupt low RAM, working it around. [ 0.000000] last_pfn = 0x120000 max_arch_pfn = 0x1000000 [ 0.000000] x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106 [ 0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 0.000000] WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c:404 generic_get_mtrr+0xea/0x120() [ 0.000000] mtrr: your BIOS has set up an incorrect mask, fixing it up. [ 0.000000] Modules linked in: [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.28.7 #6 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c042858f>] warn_slowpath+0x6f/0x90 [ 0.000000] [<c05193b0>] vsnprintf+0x3c0/0x7e0 [ 0.000000] [<c0627a00>] panic+0x15/0xee [ 0.000000] [<c041a78c>] pat_init+0x7c/0xa0 [ 0.000000] [<c040f9fc>] post_set+0x1c/0x50 [ 0.000000] [<c0733f35>] dmi_string_nosave+0x4c/0x6d [ 0.000000] [<c0441031>] up+0x11/0x40 [ 0.000000] [<c040f7ea>] generic_get_mtrr+0xea/0x120 [ 0.000000] [<c071f91f>] mtrr_trim_uncached_memory+0x7d/0x374 [ 0.000000] [<c042e583>] request_resource+0xa3/0x150 [ 0.000000] [<c0627af0>] printk+0x17/0x1f [ 0.000000] [<c071be82>] e820_end_pfn+0xb5/0xd3 [ 0.000000] [<c0719fc9>] setup_arch+0x501/0xb68 [ 0.000000] [<c0428d89>] release_console_sem+0x189/0x1d0 [ 0.000000] [<c071d027>] reserve_early_overlap_ok+0x3f/0x47 [ 0.000000] [<c07138a4>] start_kernel+0x58/0x314 [ 0.000000] ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]--- [ 0.000000] Scanning 0 areas for low memory corruption [ 0.000000] modified physical RAM map: [ 0.000000] modified: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000010000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] modified: 0000000000010000 - 000000000009f000 (usable) [ 0.000000] modified: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] modified: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] modified: 0000000000100000 - 00000000dfee0000 (usable) [ 0.000000] modified: 00000000dfee0000 - 00000000dfee3000 (ACPI NVS) [ 0.000000] modified: 00000000dfee3000 - 00000000dfef0000 (ACPI data) [ 0.000000] modified: 00000000dfef0000 - 00000000dff00000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] modified: 00000000f0000000 - 00000000f4000000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] modified: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] modified: 0000000100000000 - 0000000120000000 (usable) [ 0.000000] kernel direct mapping tables up to 379fe000 @ 10000-16000 And of course the kernel is then marked as tainted. If I install the latest 1604beta, that oopsen goes away, but so does the uptime. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) <Mercury> Knghtbrd: Hey, perl has the power grace and elegance of a sledge hammer. (=:] <|Rain|> certainly the grace and elegance, anyway -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines