[Pc_Support] How to get SuSE 9.2 to boot w/ 4 GB of RAM onboard ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

.... I just got finished building a box for the boss, Asus P4P800 Mbd, 4 
X 1 GB Corsair DDR400 RAM sticks, various other goodies. Installed SuSE 
9.2 w/ only 1 GB of RAM onboard (longstanding bug w/ SuSE (& maybe other 
distro) installers), then put the rest in & tried to reboot. It hung 
partway through the OS boot (past POST successfully). I took 2 GB out 
(left DIMMs in slots 1 & 3 for dual channel), rebooted, & viola, 
everything runs smooth as silk, no problems whatsoever. I suspected bad 
RAM or bad slots, so I booted down, removed the RAM from slots 1 & 3, & 
installed the other 2 DIMMs in slots 2 & 4 & booted memtest86 v3.2. It 
is running overnight, but when I left, it had gone about 30 minutes 
silently, making me think the RAM & mbd are in fact OK. I *think* there 
are some arguments to use at boot-time (booting w/ GRUB, BTW) when you 
are using > 2 GB of RAM, but they elude me at the moment (I *am* 
RTFM'ing furiously). Does this ring any bells w/ anyone ? C'mon, *GIVE* 
:-) .... TIA

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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