Re: Trouble Adding Memory

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

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