[ltp] 1GB in 1-slot T30 -- no bootie

Richard Neill linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 29 Jul 2006 22:00:36 +0100


Thomas Hood wrote:
> My T30 just suffered the death of its second memory expansion slot,
> cutting me down from 512 MiB to 256 MiB.
> 
> I purchased a 1 GiB PC2700 memory module to install into the working slot.
> 
> When I install this module and boot Linux, the kernel panics saying that
> it can't find a root filesystem.  It appears that the controller doesn't
> work.
> 

Just a thought - have you tried to run Memtest on it?

Richard