4GB Ram

psych · 2007-06-04 17:16:02

Hi @all

I'm using Arch64 on a Asus P5b with 4 Gb Ram.
With disabled Memory Remapping the Bios and Arch Linux recognizes ~3GB Ram.
With enabled Memory Remapping the Bios recognizes 4 GB Ram and Arch freezes at boot... Last message is "Loading Udev events" ...

Need Help...
Thx

Psych

AndyRTR · 2007-06-04 20:43:47

works for me on another P965 chipset based mainboard. i don't have that BIOS option. try to pass the memory option to the kernel. (mem=4096M or like that). but i'm sure you are not the first one. Mr.Gurgel will be your friend

nicholai · 2007-06-04 20:45:08

You can try and disable automatic module loading and see if you are able to boot. It's done in /etc/rc.conf

MOD_AUTOLOAD="no"

/Nic

psych · 2007-06-05 10:15:03

With MOD_AUTOLOAD="no" the kernel boots without any problem and arch recognizes 4 GB Ram :-) !
But.... I have to load modules manual.... how can i find out which module produces the freeze ??? can i blacklist this module???

Thx

Psych

gerryAU · 2007-06-05 12:13:18

nicholai wrote:

You can try and disable automatic module loading and see if you are able to boot. It's done in /etc/rc.conf
MOD_AUTOLOAD="no"
/Nic

Many thanks for the tip as Arch is the 1st x64 to natively boot into on this chipset 32bit installs have been fine, but most install cd`s would hang except for Arch & Gentoo. Hopefully I`ll just add the missing modules I need to modprobe.conf as I install the rest of the system and as needed modules arise ( I hope )

cheers

AndyRTR · 2007-06-05 12:16:43

you both can use the Arch 32bit iso to boot and then "hwdetect --show-modules"

psych · 2007-06-06 14:53:56

It's running nice

Thx

Psych

psych · 2007-06-07 11:10:43

I just tried to mount an usb stick... nothing happens automatically so i tried to mount it manual... but the device doesn't exist...

Udev not only stopped autoloading modules at boot... it stopped loading modules at all!

I don't know which module exactly causes the freeze... so i can only boot with MOD_AUTOLOAD="no" ...

What to do???

Thx
Psych

lucke · 2007-06-07 11:15:08

modprobe sd_mod and check whether there's something about your usb stick in dmesg.

psych · 2007-06-07 11:21:40

I found out that intel_agp causes the crash at boot... i blacklistet it and now everything runs fine!

Thx
Psych

Arch Linux

#1 2007-06-04 17:16:02

4GB Ram

#2 2007-06-04 20:43:47

Re: 4GB Ram

#3 2007-06-04 20:45:08

Re: 4GB Ram

#4 2007-06-05 10:15:03

Re: 4GB Ram

#5 2007-06-05 12:13:18

Re: 4GB Ram

#6 2007-06-05 12:16:43

Re: 4GB Ram

#7 2007-06-06 14:53:56

Re: 4GB Ram

#8 2007-06-07 11:10:43

Re: 4GB Ram

#9 2007-06-07 11:15:08

Re: 4GB Ram

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