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jemann.chen

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From: taiwan

Registered: 2003-06-06

Posts: 34

CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y with SATA HD

I got a very strange problem,  kernel with CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y works for PATA HD last week,
when I change to SATA HD, the kernel boot message show up:

...
request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-xxxx
(5 times)
then stop there.

I had try Debian 4(etch) with linux-image-686-bigmem, got the same messages.
Any idea? Thanks!

jemann.chen

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From: taiwan

Registered: 2003-06-06

Posts: 34

Re: CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y with SATA HD

I just tried Fedora 7 with kernel-PAE.i686 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7, got kernel panic.

PS:
M/B: Asus M2A-VM (BIOS 0503)
CPU: A64 X2 3600+
RAM: Kingstone DDR2-667 1G x 4
HD: Seagate SATA 250G (ST3250620AS)

jemann.chen

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From: taiwan

Registered: 2003-06-06

Posts: 34

Re: CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y with SATA HD

I just compile kernel-2.6.22-rc4 and works very well.
#free
total -> 4151156

jemann.chen

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From: taiwan

Registered: 2003-06-06

Posts: 34

Re: CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y with SATA HD

Found a bug about loop block device, where compiled in kernel or as modules,
no loop device in /dev.

mount -o loop xxx.iso /mnt/iso
mount: could not find any device /dev/loop

jemann.chen

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From: taiwan

Registered: 2003-06-06

Posts: 34

Re: CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y with SATA HD

just compiled 2.6.21.5 and works fine, the loop problem was gone.