Justin,
I had a similar problem.
I downgraded the CPU type to K5 and things started to work
I have also heard that
append="mem=xxxm" also helps to solve this kind of problem.
Please let me know either works.
Regards
Phil Wilshire
lineoISG ( formerly Zentropix )
>
> In part of my mission to figure out where the heck some of the memory
> problems I've been having are coming from, I compiled a 2.4.0-test4 kernel
> tonight. (Actually, I've compiled a lot of kernels tonight. But 2.4.0
> was the only one where I saw this problem.) I did the usual, ran lilo,
> and rebooted, and got:
>
> Uncompressing linux...
> Booting linux...
>
> Out of memory
>
> -- System halted.
>
> This is all I ever get when I try to boot this kernel. The machine
> has 224M of memory in it, so somehow I doubt it's out of memory.
>
> Machine specs: AMD K6-2/450, Asus P5A Motherboard, 128M memory, sym53c8xx
> SCSI card, booting off an IDE hard drive, running SuSE 6.2.
>
> The memory in the system is brand new, I bought it because I'd been having some
> weird memory problems under 2.2.x, and I just figured it was bad memory.
> (Getting bus errors in netscape whenever it's memory spikes, if I try to create
> a large image in gimp, gimp crashes, SIGILLs and SIGBUSes while compiling
> large apps.) I'm seeing the exact same behavior with the new memory, however,
> so I started looking for other causes. Anyone have suggestions? I've also
> attached my kernel config below.
>
>
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