[ltp] Linux not stable

[wes schreiner]

Charles E Taylor IV wrote:

>On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 07:12:34 -0800 (PST)
>Toby Riddell <tobyriddell@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>I had many problems with my 600E until I added the "mem=" directive to
>>the grub configuration file. I read that Linux does not know that part
>>of the RAM is reserved for the firmware and this line is needed to
>>prevent them walking all over each other. The problems manifested
>>themselves as occasional, random crashes, problems with shutdown, and
>>creeping filesystem corruption until the system would no longer boot. 
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>Oddly enough, I *don't* have this problem with my Thinkpad 600 (no
>E or X, running Red Hat 7.3), and I've not touched the grub configuration
>file.
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>The system appears to use the same amount of memory as shown when the
>machine boots.  Does this problem only hit certain versions of the
>kernel/grub/lilo? 
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No, it's only an issue with older BIOS versions. If you update the BIOS 
first before initially installing Linux you will never see this problem.

wes